South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-02-11
SOLON OUTLINES
CONGRESS WORK
In SPEECH HERE
Sen. New Points Out Steps
Toward Normally Made by
Harding Administration.
lContIaI.sd from - one.l

SarE % raise $500. 600 200, 600 10 car
~ on the government Mind YOU. a
billion Of that was necessary 10 pay
the interest fin the national debt It
could not be f0regoue There We're
other similar things. soldier relief,
vocational training and compeasa.-
ton. amounting 10 an expenditure
Of S2s6. GOO. 600 No one wants TO
cut that one cent. 7 am merely try
ing 10 show YOU where the money
went You viii agree that these APP
preparations are not large. showing
the disposition of congress TO save
the republic moneys.
Passed Budget.
THE budget bin was passed next
This was an abandonment Of the Old
haphazard method of conducting the
government This is the greatest
/ business step taken in more than so
years. It centralizes under one head
ain estimates OF expenses of the gov
eminent and they may not be eX-
ceeded by appropriation.
AS To the practice of economy We
said congress has to do what every
prudent business man will do, what
every plant around South Bend will
do. cut Gown overhead and reduce
expenses to the lowest possible notch.
Public employees I'm washington were
reduced by 10000 and outside Of
WashintOn by 10000, making So GOO
reduction over the number in service
when the democrats went out.
I'm every manner, even TO the
printing in both houses. there was
/ economy. Economy equal 10 that
of the most cheese pairing housewife.
1T cost us less 10 run this govern
ment by $607 600, 900 in the first six
months of our administration than
I for the same period of the year be-
T fore. And this amount was $1,000
600, 600 less for the year than for
/ the year previous.
Hit Farmers Hardest.
II believe the farmers were hit a
little earlier and a little harder than
any other line of business. Let's
/ see what congress has done for the
farmer Il has passed the packers
/ bill, regulating stOckyards to prevent
I overcharge to the farmer. It has
passed the stock exchange bill, to stop
?
passed the Kenyon bill, increasing
interest to 8 y percent on farm loan
I banks at the same time maintaining
the g percent rate for loans 10 farm
ers 1t has passed the Curtis bill
adding S25.O00,O0O 10 those banks
capitalized as farm loan banks. And
/ last but not least II has passed a bill
I extending the operations OF the war
I finance board
All these things are true as they
affect the farmer. Man-made law
1 will never overcome economic law
/ We must make avenues where legis-
lative law will operate in sympathy
7 with economic law.
"The matter of collection of our
/ foreign debts should be by a confer
/ ence of nations similar to the dis
+ armament conference. 1t is perfect
i ~ absurd TO think that the L. 5. can
/ lay down a rule regarding payment
and have it observed by other gov
ernments.
Tariff Difficult.
"A tariff bill at all times IS the
most difhcult piece of legislature
with which 10 deal F1uctuation in
currency values Of foreign govern
ments has prevented quick action.
experts have been working on plan
and we are now about ready for a
tariff bill.
Now 7 come TO what I consider
the greatest accomplishment of a
century. the disarmment conference.
I don't think there is anything like il
in history. 1t has guaranteed peace
TO the United States for ten years at
least Talk about your open cove
nants openly arrived at. there never
was one as openly presented as the
one of Sec'y Hughes.
I've tried to tell YOU what's hap
peued in ten months of Harding's
administration Not only were the
affairs OF the United States but Of
/ the world disrupted at the start. Any
war is followed by a period of hard
times a man cannot escape his own
I folly nothing can save a man from il.
After the civil war it took IA
I years to come back to normal But
/ / believe we are already on the up
grade as Ear as business is con-
cerned. am not trying to paint the
I lily. buc can say in good faith that
I business depression has passed its
7 loves point We will come out OF
. this v.ar-condition much sooner than
+ that following the civil war.
Those are the problems that have
been faced by the administration ana
i'm the way il has met them YOU can
Judge how it will meet others in the
future"
To Leave This Morning.
I Sen. New viii leave South Bend At
I 10 O'Clock this morning for Chicago
where ne VIII stop for only a few
hours before leaving for Washing
I ton lie expects 10 be in his seat in
I the senate Monday morning
After his arrival in South Bend
( yesterday noon he was taken to the
University Of Notre Dame where he
was luncheon guest of Rev. James
A. Burns. president of the university.
I'm a tour of the factories Sen. New
visited the NIshawaka Wooden Mills
+ Co. the Dodge Mfg. Co, and South
I Bend plants
He also paid a short visit TO Judge
Fred c. Klein. republican county
1 chairman. who IS recovering from an
illness and TO ST. Mary's college
/ Following the afternoon tour. he me
many of his friends informally at the
f oliver hotel Among those who Wis
tied him were Mayor Eli Seebirt.
Rome e.. stephenson. Judge Ralph :.
Feig. Dwight Russ, John F. Yeagley,
Atty Arthur T. Gillian eX-Mayor
Ralph W Gaylor of Mishawaka and
delegations from Elkhart and Nap
panee.
The senator is battling Albert j.
Beverage. former L. :. senator. for