The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-07-09
HONEYMOON OF AID M|N|STRAT|0N IS
over; now Time TO SETTLE DOWN
Everything Is Now Serene at Washington; Some Congressman
Jump Over Traces; New|yw eds in Congress Don't Like
the Way They Are Treated by Old Ladies.

WASHINGTON, July 7.-(special
Correspondence.)- All is not as it
seems up on the hill where sits Con-
gress in all it's glory. The honeymoon
Is over and now is the time for set
tnng down and settling up confronting
the gentlemen Of the house and SEN
ate; also the lone, but not lonely, in
haoltant Of the White Mansion at the
other end Of the avenue.
When the special session opened up
everybody was billing and cooling
about how lovely the prospect was,
how perfectly beautiful was the har-
mony existing between and among all
factions and what delightfully."- en-
Joyable time was to be had by those
present as they fixed things for the
future. The country was to be pulled,
not to say yanked, out Of its troubles,
set on its feet and given one quick
shove into prosperity, and then the
boys were to go home and meet the
glad extended hand of welcome and
the bright smiles and gratitude of an
admlrlng populace whose sole desire
would be to return the bringers Of
said prosperity to the halls of legisla-
ton in 1922. It was time Of reioic-
ing and exceedingly great happiness.
Now comes the aftermath and trou-
BILE is sticking up it's ugly head dis
turbing the harmony and causing cold
glances, hard words and harder reali-
ties to come between the adoring
SWANS and their loving partners. In
other words, hell is about to break
loose. Dear Heart reaches for a plate
while Darling grabs the ice pick and
the house is all cluttered up with
relics Of too short honeymoon. Same
relics to be useful later on as am
munition and weapons in the fight
now looming up.
All of which opens up the story
which follows. This country is, like
the Minnesota sheriff caught over the
line in Canada and socked in Jail for
carrying a gun and quart, in a devil
OF fix. The most conservative esti-
mate is that five million people are
out of work and tho number growing
each day; conditions surrounding
trade with other countries are no bet
ter is as good as they were; finance
and f1nanciers are up tree with for
elgn exchange always muddying the
waters of business, and the outlook
for a pickup in industry continues to
be clouded by hopelessness.
All Of those facts are being realized
and the program outlined when Con-
gress met is still in outline-very neb-
nlous outline at that-and now comes
Mr.. Mellon of the treasury with a
scheme to refund the debt owed by
the Allies and other countries, which
scheme is presented in very vague and
uncertain terms to the senate in the
form of a. bill by Boise Penrose Of
Pennsylvania.
1t is whispered that the bill is a
connection Of international bankers
who are trying to save their bacon
and it appears to have been the cause
Of a coming together of senators and
congressman from the south and west
who are commencing to believe that
the United States is not the street
that begins at church and ends at
a suicides dock. They reason that
there are others to be looked after
besides international bankers and that
the United States covers considerably
greater territory than Wall Street does
the cause for their belief being found
In the mutterings Of constituents back
home now turning into bitter and vo-
ciferous denunciation of the slowness
Of Congress in remedying conditions.
New Congressman Ready to Revolt.
Combinations Of senators, made up
of both Republican and Democratic ell
ements. have been formed for various
purposes, the word "bloc" being used
to describe such combinations because
of the absence Of party lines and the
necessity for an appelation, until now
YOU hear nothing Of Republicans or
Democrats, but always of this or that
bloc, which may be an admission that
there amt no such thing any more as
a Republican or Democrat-just blocs.
This week there broke out another
pretty little shindy due to the fact
that the Newlyweds of the Republican
ill., in the house claimed the older
ladies of the establishment who be-
long to the Republican machine were
not giving the hOneymoOners q look
in at the cooking, table-setting, cake
making and other games Of chance.
They are real ladylike at present
and now that they have no desire to
embarrass the dear old party, but
we'll, they just amt going to be ig-
nored and sat on any longer. They
demand the right to talk even if there
is company present; to sit In the par
Tor and play their own music on the
piano and sing the songs they like.
So they have organized another bloc
and called upon all the new congress-
men to rally round and carry on.
And that's another thing unpleasing
to the Older Statesmen who thought
they had it all sewed up last Novem-
Der. All in all, there's some mighty
fine blocing being done by all hands.
Director General Says "Nay."
Pretty soon, if not sooner, the lid
will be off as pretty concealed scrap
as has been seen for many days. It
is a three, not to say four, cornered
mixup which is rapidly taken on the
nature Of a battle royal. the reason
for which may be found in the un-
willingness of the director general Of
railways, James c. Davis. to accept
and pay instanter, right away and at
once, claims for losses. alleged to be
correct, by railroads.
1t appears that Mr.. Davis has been
long connected with railroad manage