The Newark journal., 1922-03-16
Warren 6. Harding Completes His First Year as President
 of United States.
FALL AND WALLACE IN CLASH
American Government Declines to Par ticlpate in Genoa Conference Lloyd Georges Threatened Resignation - Fourteenth Canadian Parliament
 opened-Fiume
 Fumes Again.
By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

l By JOHN pfCKifNSON SVEhMfNN
 WARREN G. HARDING at noon of
 w March completed his first year as President Of the United States. He was asked for an expression regarding the accomplishments of his administra- tfon to date and authorized this state ment:
 .The record of the administration speaks for itself; 1t would be poor administration that required the execu- tive 10 speak for II"
 At an entertainment by the National Press club in honor of the first official birthday the President said:
 "The long step toward getting back toward normal ways of government would seem to me to have been the achievement of the year
 Representative Fess of Ohio, chair man of the Republican congressional committee, made in the house a speech setting forth in detail the accomplish ments of the year from the Republican viewpoint. He dwelt on economies, actual and prospective. He said that the United States would be the only
 government in the world living within
 its revenues next year if 1t could keep
 within the estimates outlined by the
 administration. Reviewing the work
 of the arms conference, he said: '.l
 challenge the record to produce a
 greater achievement in the history ot diplomacy"
 , Democratic members then proceeded
 to tear to pieces the Fess eulogy iron , their standpoint. Cordell Hull. chair man of the Democratic national com mittee, also took issue with the Fes' , statement. His general position is tha l while the Republican congress has en acted multiplicity of unimportan
 laws and the arms conference provid
 ed for limited program of naval re duction the Republican party hai failed to carry out it's major prom iseS made in the campaign of 1920. Now, in the house debate over th' administrations statement of econo r mics Fess talked exactly as if he be
 leved everything he said and th'
 Democrats talked back exactly as 1 they believed everything they said And the taxpayer in the gallery kney that everybody couldn't be telling In 3 truth, the whole truth ana nothing bu F the truth. The upshot was that Rep } resentatiye Byrns of Tennessee. rank
 ing Democratic member of the appro priations committee secured the pass age of a resolution calling upon tn . President to inform the house in wha : way the savings had been made, frou what particular appropriations and il what specific amounts. Thereupon tn President instructed General Dave of the budget bureau to prepare / complete statement covering the eH
 tire situation One thing at leas !. stands out clearly: Nonody doubt n that Ill and Maria" Dawes will giy the facts and figures as they are.
 President and Mrs Harding lcf Washington Wednesday evening b
 train for St. Augustine. Fla. The pres ?. identIal party included Attorney Ger Q eral Daugherty. Speaker Gillett, Ur n derseeretary of State Fletcher. Brig !. adler General Sawyer. his persona
 physician, and George F. Christian
 his secretary. Mir. Christian said th l. President would occupy his time | rest and recreation" in Florida fo F q week or so.