The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-24

bhghtlng touch Ot the Republican aQ-
 ministration. \ ct they stand up here Ill the face of the dreadful conditions that are upon the country and boast
 ot what they say they are doing for the American people.
 ANY CONSEQUENCE TO THE
 GET THROUGH THIS BODY
 UNLESS IT IS 0. KID Bl WALL STREET. THAT Is THE SITUA- TON, AND WE MIGHT JUST AS WELL TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT IT. NO BILL WHICH AFFECTS THE CONTROL OF THE MONEY SUPPLY OF THIS COUNTRY, WHEN THE SOUTH AND THE WEST ARE PROS TRATE, CAN GET THROUGH THIS CHAMBER WITHOUT THE 0. k. OF WALL STREET" Senator Bursum, republican, oi New Mexico interrupted to state that the republicans had majority of oo to 30 and the democrats couldn't take credit 10 ranything, to which MT. Helhn answered that the records showed weekly 25 or 50 absent, most of them tanning themselves on the beaches ot Florida while drawing pay for being on the job, which brought Senator Caraway o1 Arkan sas to his feet with the remark that they should stay there as their being away was an aid to good government, The people will attend 10 1t that many will stay permanently away from Washington after next fall, MT. Hel- fin replied. Bursum interrupted sev- eral times and got such short and snappy answers that he beat ii" at tention to which was called by Sen ator Caraway who arose to say that he (Bursum) had packed his bag and gone MT Helhn acknowledged the departure and added that senators who go away and sta yaWay except ! for sickness should be kept away per
 manently.
 "I remember the other day when you had up the proposition to take away from the American Congress 1 the right to handle the indebtedness of foreign countries owing this gov ernment about eleven billion dollars and a great many Of us were insisting upon collecting some of 1t until we at least could be just to the soldiers who saved the nation, we
 saw the republican party under the
 whip and spur of their leadership bring in a message to take II away
 from the peoples representative and
 turn 1t over to commission ot hve
 to be appointed by the President, to
 take the whole thing over and post
 pone 1t through future years in order that Wall Street might collect five
 billion due from these same countries.
 saw you bring in these same sen
 ators and they came In and seated
 themselves for awhile and when their
 names were called voted to take this
 matter out of the hands of Congress
 just as Wall Street wanted 1t done,
 And now they are gone again. Ot course you can get them whenever a measure come up that effects big in- terests. They come and they vote as the big bosses suggest and then they return to their native habitat. That lis what we see going on here.'
 Senator Watson of Georgia, inter
 rupted with: Il beg to remind the senator from Alabama that the man who will probably have more inhu- ence than any other in the extension of this enormous foreign debt Is holding his office in violation of law passed by the very first Congress that ever assembled. MT. Secretary Mel lon, who will act on that commis sion, is holding his office in violation of law, and could on any day that we sa wht be impeached, and could on any day that anybody swore out a warrant against him be arrested and sent to the penitentiary.
 Senator Heh:n then continued: "W ( are slowly but surely disclosing the situation. l think before the fall elections come we will be able to reach the people with good many things that they never would know from reading the big, camoufager headlines of subsidized newspapers.
 "The power of the purse Is won
 derful power i'll politics, and it has been recognized by the republican party recently. You have openly in vited it's poisonous participation in politics. It makes barter of the bal lot, and yet the republican senate just a few days ago indorsed the sale of a seat in this body. What more do
 the corrupt money interests want than to have ycu confirm the sale of
 seats that they buy? They want to control this body permanently. What do they care about who controls the
 House if they have majority in this
 body that will do their bidding2 I do not propose to recognize the right of Wall otreet 10 Q1Ctate the pOllClcS
 of Congress. l do not propose to
 say that Wall Street is right when she wants the government Of hun
 dred million people to postpone the
 payment of ST 1000, 900, 900 due to it
 while Wall Street collects a private debt of $5,ooo, ,ooo, 900. 1 do not pro- pose to sanction the policy that de
 nies to the soldiers who wore the uni form to save my country's life in the hour of it's peril fair and just settle ment at the hands of the government they love.
 "The painful wounds and ugly scars that your ruinous policies have in hICted upon the once robust body of American business are still there, and inspired newspaper fiction Aill neith- CT hide them or heal them We are