Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-15
c. 0. P. ADMITS DEMOCRATS
MAY CONTROL next CONGRESS-
Senator Walsh Says Harding administrator
Does Not Claim 1t Will Hold More Than
Small Majority at Best.

Senator Il. j. walsh was a visitor IN
Great Falls Thursday afternoon on his
way from Helena to his summer home
at Lake Mcdonald in Glacier park,
where he will spend the remainder Of
the month resting in preparation for
the fall campaign. The senior Mon
lana senator will devote the month
of October to campaigning the state
for the democratic state committee.
"It is common talk at the national
capital that the next house of repre-
sentatives will be democratic" he told
newspaper men here. In an article
in the Washington Post, the recognized
mouthpiece of the Harding admins
t~ration, on August 81, it was stated
that republican leaders have figured
out that the republicans will have a
majority of 40 in the house after
March T.. Some estimates, it adds,
place the majority at "a, but 40 is the
figure agreed upon by the wise ones.
When 1t is remembered that the pres
ent house is republican by a majority
Of 1853, it will be realized that a pre-
/ election statement that it will be re-
duced to 40 or "a is tantamount to a
confession of defeat, and that the arti-
! Gle referred to is put out in a desperate
effort to arouse the lethargic and,
more likely, to induce laggard and dis
gruntled partisan beneficiaries to come
across with the funds deemed indis-
pensable TO carry the election.
Zone of the leaders referred to in
the article which | have just men
toned is Representative Wood of In
diana, now chairman Of the republican
congressional committee, who, on No
venber II, last year, said on the floor
of the house that the people of this
country employed in every vocation and
every character of business are giving
this congress hell
Wood Admits Laxity
""They are doing It, Wood added,
because we have done nothing to slim
ulate business. They are doing it be-
cause we have done nothing to give
employment to the unemployed. They
are doing it because we have done
nothing to benefit the farmer and slim
ulate the prices of the farmers prod
ucts.'
They haven't ceased doing it, either.
On March 3 the Boston Transcript, the
most thoroughgoing, old line republican
newspaper of New England, religiously
read every morning in every household
in the Back Bay district of Boston, as
serted editorially that the present con-
gress with its 1853 republican majority
in the house and SO in the senate, is
the worst in 20 years. In explanation,
Il said: 1t has done more things that 1t
ought not to have done and it has left
undone more things it ought to have
done than any house of representatives
controlled either by the republican or
the democratic party in 20 years and
then it concluded by saying: Taken
as a whole, the house of representa-
tives as controlled by the republican
party, If judged by its record to date,
II unworthy another lease of life
Paper Condemns Tariff
Tess than 30 days ago this staunch
republican journal said Of the crown
ing work of the congress: 1t would
be hard to draft a worse tariff than
that to be sent to conference by the
senate this week. 1t ought to be easy
to purge the bill of some of its more
fragrant schedules in the wake of the
rebuke which we hope and believe the
party in power will receive at the polls
next November
Judged by its record this stalwart
republican newspaper says. the repub-
lican congress is unworthy another
lease of life What is that record?
After 20 months since complete con-
troll of the machinery Of the legislation
passed into republican hands with an
Overwhelming majority in both houses,
the tariff bin, representative of the
cardinal principle Of the party, de-
nounced roundly by the press of all
parties, including the most influential
republican journals in the country,
notably the New York Herald, the New
York Tribune and the Chicago Tribune,
is stiIl in the hands Of the conference
committee.
~The adjusted compensation legisla-
ton, the passage of which was inter-
rupted on July II, 1921 by a special
message from President Harding. who,
on that day, came to the senate while
the bill was under consideration to
dissuade action, remains likewise in
conference, the senate having obse-
quiously yielded to the executive
recommitted the bill.
Says Harding Meddler
"Our history will be searched in vain
for a similar interference on the part
of the executive with the work of con
gress. In other times its resentment
would have been made plain. Its silence ;