Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1922-04-08
THE Actions OF THE CONGRESS
Prepared by Richard Iinthicum.

7 IN the world.
: Concerning the Emergency Tariff
: Act, DR.. Asiwell said;
1.-THE Emergency Tariff bill be,
came law on May 81, 1921. Chi
eago wheat No. was selling on that
date at $1.57&, 1t went down and
still down until wheat got out OF
he farmers hand and then the Re
publican congress thrust $4,000,
600 into the market for buying grain
TOR Russia in an effort to force the
price back--altogether the grain
was out of the hands of the farmers
before that was done. Today the
price of the same wheat in the Same
market is $1,32h -25 cents bus.
hel cheaper than when the tariff
bill was passed. That was an ac'
lieyement of the administration.
| Corn was selling on that day at
| SO cents and Is selling today at 81
cents. The price of sugar under the
emergency tariff bill has declined
| IL cent a pound and all other farm
| PRODUCTS have met the same disaster.
| rhe Emergency tariff has not done
| ne solitary thing to help any farm
H."
In his reply to DR.. Fess' claims
of achievements for the Harding adj
ministration, DR.. Asweu NOT oniy
showed that the Emergency Tariff
act had been of NO benefit to the
farmer, but called attention to the
fact that the Republicans had cut
down the credits to the farm loan
banks favored by the Democrats. He
said
He (Mr. Fess) claims that this
administration deserves credit for
adding SIS, 100000 to the Farm Loan
banks of the country. The record
shows that the Democrats In this
chamber undertook to make 1t $780, |
600, 900. Mr., Wingo (Dem, Tex
as), made the motion, and the gen
tleman from Wyoming (Mr. Mondell,
the Republican floor leader, made a
speech against it, and the gentle
man from Ohio (Mr. Fess) Joined |
the gentleman from Wyoming on the
roll call and voted against the $780, |
100000 and helped to vote it down |
to $25,000,000 for the Farm Banks
of this country. Yet he claims that
this is one of his party's achieve
ments."
DR.. Aswell stated that he had vot
ed for the Packers bill and the
Grain Futures bill because he decided |
1t was the best thing to be gotten
from a Republican administration.
He also called attention to nr. |
Fess' boast that the Republicans had
appropriated $75,O00,000 for public
roads and then exploded the boast
by saying 1.-THE Democratic adj
ministration never gave less than
800, 900, 900 when in power"
The falsity of DR.. Fess claim
that the Republican congress was
entitled to credit for good roads
legislation was further exposed by
Representative Thomas (Dem., Ky)
who said. 1.-THE facts are that the
Republican party through its long
ears of public affairs resisted and
defeated every proposition to enact
good roads law and that law was
passed by the Democratic party un-
der the leadership of Woodrow Will
SON."
Representative Brand (Dem., Ca,
what was left of DR..
Fess' boast concerning legislation
for farm loan banks, when he said:
he Senate passed an amendment
to one Of the appropriation bills au-
thorizing the loan to the farmers to
the Federal Farm Loan Board Of
) 100,000,0 900 and the Banking and
Currency committee of this E@use
refused to agree to the amendment,
md subsequently, when the Demo-
Gratis made an effort to restore the
Senate amendment to the bill, this
House voted 1t down and let the
amount stand of $4,000, 900"
The claims Of economy made by
DR.. Fess for the first year Of the |
administration were made
ridiculous when dealt with by that
master of the subject Of government
finance, Representative Joseph w.
Byrns (Dem., Tenn. Referring to :
DR.. Fess' statement that this Is one
Of the two or three governments of
the world that have balanced bud
get, Mr.. Byrns confessed he did not
know what the Doctor meant by
balanced budget, but took 1t that he
meant that our revenue equals our
expenses.
THAT is rather a remarkable state
ment for the distinguished gentle
man to make" said Mr.. Byrns, "in