The New York herald., 1922-08-23
FESS SAYS HARDING
ENDED PORK BARREL
Eulogizes Administration in
Keynote Speech at Ohio Re-
publican Convention.
MOST SCIENTIFIC TARIFF
Pomerene, at Democratic Ses-
sion, Calls Revenue Bill Big
gest Pork Barrel Ever.

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Aug. % (Associated
Press) .--Reviewing the achievements Of
the Harding administration Represen-
tative Simeon u. Fess. Republican can
didate for the United States Senate In
Ohio. declared in the keynote address
to the Republican State Convention here
late to-day that the day of 'pork bar
rel' legislation had gone forever.
With the aid of a Republican Con-
eress President Harding naugurated a
national budget system. Mr. Fess said
(which had been vetoed by his prede-
cessor." and "for the first time in our
history the greatest business of all his
tory now is conducted as any we'll reg
ulated private enterprise s conducted"
He asserted in this connection that the
United States was the only country in
the world (which had reduced its public
debt since the war"
Mr.. Fess, discussing the work of Con-
gress. declared that when measured
both by the Importance and amount Of
work done since the Inauguration of
President Harding these less than
eighteen months of labor exceed any
like period in our history" .
Billions In Economy.
After detailing a list of bills of ma
tional Importance passed in that time
with list of others passed by the
House but not acted on by the Senate,
Mr.. Fess said:
The major portion OF any session is
the appropriation measures, which never
were so difficult as in this Congress-
where the work of cutting to the bone
saved billions of dollars Of public funds"
Touching on the tariff Mr. Fess sa id !:
Difficult as has been the task, delayed
he Hra uyt1 ha NIB
IT becomes law the most scientific tariff
ever enacted"
He declared this was the first instance
where such legislation was built on data
collected by and recommended to Con-
gress by a tariff commission"
There still remains the work of tariff
completion, shipping legislation and the
creation of a fact finding commission to
insure the protection of the public and
at the same time secure justice to all
parties in the coal industry" said Mr.
Fess. 'Thero must also be found a
better way to adjust disputes between
labor and capital so that the public in
terest may be paramount.
Harding Wise Leader.
This must be done. not in the heat
or dispute, but in calm considera ton
heard and in the spirit that will insure
the maintenance OF law and order in the
protection of the suffering public. To
this task the President is committed and
! have no doubt he will succeed as he
SO remarkably succeeded in the other
great tasks he has met"
Mr.. Fess told how the arms conference
had removed some of the burdens of war
by reducing armament and said:
"It is with pardonable pride that out
of caldron of almost universal war
fare, with every relation more or less
strained by both the actual war and the
unhappy confusion to follow after the
war, this nation. under the leadership Of
an Ohio President, has emerged with its
sovereignty and independence intact, its
rights all conserved, its disputes COM
posed. Its moral leadership universally
conceded
Pomcrene Sees Victory.
Charging that the Republican Ad.
ministration at Washington had repu-
dated its campaign pledges of 1920 and
that great part of the legislation by
the present Congress had been for the
benefit of big business rather than tho
ordinary citizen, Senator Atlee Pome-
rene. delivering the keynote address at
the Democratic State Convention here
to-day. predicted Democratic victory
In November.
after March 4 next there will still
be, one Democratic Senator in Washing
ton from Ohio and more than half OF
the House delegation from Ohio will be
Democratic" he said.
Bitter criticism OF the Republican
tariff bill. which he termed "the greatest
piece of pork barrel legislation in the
history of Congress-" formed the major
part of the address. which also touched
upon what Senator Pomerene declared
the complete failure of the Administra-