Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1921-09-22
LAUDS WORK Of
LATE CONGRESS
TESS SHOWS IT Is IN HARMONY
WITH SPIRIT OF THE HARD
ING ADMINISTRATION.

" oShihb eOi, RNpNs III VIC i'ui
months in which it has been in session
the present Republican Congress has
put through program of construct
i've and remedial legislation which
has been unsurpassed, according to
Representative Simeon ID. Fess, of
Ohio, chairman of the National Re-
publican Congressional Committee.
He says:
LESS than six months ago Harding
was inaugurated President of the
United States. Within month he
called into special session Congress,
which has been in session n little over
four months. Mr.. Harding has in
herited the Government of a Nation
whose fundamental principles had
been wholly suspended, if not over
turned, by world wide conflict. The
war had involved all the world and
had completely interrupted the nor
NAL process of the laws of economic
and scientific operation. The stress
induced governmental interference,
ton and consumption. The new adj
ministration inherited a public debt
of $25, 100000 900, which had been in
creased from S973,000,000 to this be-
wildering figure, the annual interest
of which is much greater than the
total cost of Government, including
Army and Navy, before the war. 1t
Inherited n running expense that is
six times what it was prior to the
war, which means that the burdens
of public taxation is that much hoav-
Ter than it was in 1914. 1t found the
Nations industries over-cXpandcd 10y
war demands, a pay roll overbalanc-
ed, the laws Of supply and demand
suspended, the Nations capital and
labor menaced, and the cost of pro-
duction abnormally high. 1t found
the debts made, but the bills unpaid.
Disturbed as were our domes-
tic conditions, they were less critical
than were our foreign relations. The
intricate problems growing out of
European jealousies were further
complicated by an effort to bind the
Nation in plan of supcrgovcrnmont,
prevented only by the Senate, which
was overwhelmingly ratified in the
Solemn referendum of last Novem-
Der.
"The new administration immedi-
ately attacked the problem ard has
courageously proceeded in the work
of readjustmcnt to the point where
in less than six months time it has
challenged the admiration Of tho
world. Let the record speak for it.
self. Our foreign relations policy is
definitely and certainly rosuming and
retaining our honorable position or
non-interference in matters not our
own, and our incorporating insist
ence of rightful recognition of our
place among the nations, preserving
our rights without offending our
rivals
"The proposed surrender to Japan
in our uncontested international
rights in the Pacific attempted by
the treaty of Versailles as evidenced
in the zap episode, is already recall |
ed, and we are assured Of national
upon our view as stated
by the State Department and rein
forced by including it in the pro-
gram Of the coming conference. The
same can be said with Britain on the
controversy, which is
assured in satisfaction Of property
owned by Americans. The exalted
position taken with the Reds Of Rus
STA was final. justifiable, and salu-
tary, not only for us but for the Old .
World, including Russia. Our posi-
ton with Panama is consonant with .
these accomplishments.
"The war was ended by congress
sional resolution July /, this year,
and steps are already completed for
he conference Of nations called to-
yether by the President to agree to
disarmament. This much talked
about thing of world peace has taken
longer strides within the past six
months than in a century Of dogmat-
&c theorizing in the past and promises
10 be the browning event of this cen
fury. All this has been accomplished /
by and with the consent Of those par
ties responsible for the movement Of
world peace at home and abroad and +
In manner which displays warmer
spirit Of cosmopolitan cooperation
than has up to date been noticed in
the conduct Of nations in all history.
"In the four months Of Congress in +
special session attention is called TO
a program Of achievement not equal
ed by any Congress in the same
length of time. Besides the two de
appropriation bills, the Army
and Navy appropriation bills have
been enacted, saving 100000 in
the bills below the estimates of Sec
rotary Baker and Secretary Daniels.
''To insure against a flood Of inn
migrants determined to escape from
Old World turmoil incident to war,
and thus increasing our serious prob |
lem of unemployment, Congress pass
ed at an early date the immigration
bill limiting further immigration to