The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1922-05-19

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I Then there is the Panama Canal
! Why. my friends, he has saving in
I here of $19.674 in the original appro-
priation for digging canal from the
7 Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, appro-
priated when the proposition was
first urged for digging canal from
( the Atlantic 10 the Pacific Ocean. He
could not spend it. Because it was not
spent this year. How could it be
spent? In what way could he dig Il
canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific
: Ocean for $4,000? The money could
be spent for no other purpose. For
years it has been on the books. and ii
il is on the books, then he has saved
il this year.
Then we have censorship for for
eign mails in the Panama Canal Zone.
where we have saved $500 this
year. Evidently he has not heard that
the espionage act is no more, and We
could not spent it. Because it was not
spent and could not be spent, the Dr.
rector of the Budget says he saved
$53 900. And the worst OF it all is he
seems to have induced the President
to believe it. and he has given circu-
latiOn to these absurd claims of say
ings.
Why. we are going to save $l9.06G,
600 in the Treasury Department in the
Supervising Architects office. On
what? On public buildings. Back in
1913 We passed a public building bill,
and because they cannot get any
body TO take the contracts for some
buildings for the amount of money
then appropriated, on account of the
increased cost, it remains on the
books. Therefore we have saved $40
000,U because we can not get any
body to take the contract until we
enact legislation increasing the limit
II cost.
Now as to the Department of
State. There is an alleged saving of
little over million dollars. The
largest single item is S150.UOO pay
ment to Columbia under the treaty of
1909. In other words, back in 1909,
$150,UOO was appropriated. Columbia
refused to accept it. Director Dawes
says it is saved this year. Ii it was 4
saving this year. it has been saving
every year tor the past y years. and
we have saved $9,000,000 out of this
$750.000 fund
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statement of General Dawes would be
a joke book if it We're not serious in
its effort to mislead the public. There
is a saving of 100000 for what? War
emergency improvements. One hun
dred thousand dollars was apprupria-
ted for the District of Columbia to re-
pair streets around the Army and
Navy buildings constructed during
the war. The Treasury could not pay
Il dollar of it after the end of the war.
1t was not spent during the war I'M
der the Democratic administration;
they didn't spend a dollar Of it, and it
remains on the books. General Dawes
, says he has saved il this year when
there could not have been Il dollar of
it paid out OF the Treasury on any
voucher. Who did he save il from?
Legislative. You do not know it,
but he says that he saved $25,UU0 out
of the salaries of Members of Con-
gress. Who did not get theirs?
, NaughterD The only way it could he
saved was when some member of
/ Congress died Did he kill them? And
yet he claims that he saved that
amount. | said ii was a joke book
Uaughter)
The defeat of Senator New, in In
diana, is a severe blow TO the Harding
administration, he being one OF its
closest supporters. Harding and New
are not only political allies from ad-
joining States. but are the closest of
personal friends. Beverde, the victor
in the primary, represents the same
old Progressive revolt that endorsed
the Republicans in the middle of Taft'S
term; il is the natural rebellion
agairSt boss rule and money dicta-
ton. Every effort of the adminiStra-
tiCn was made to save New and at the
same time save the Presidents face.
even to sending to the State every
man who could be found in the De
partmentS at Washington. who had
lived in Indiana. All in vain: the re-
volt is on and there is no chance for
it to subsde until Harding is driven
from the White House in 1924.
d. The came fight is on in Pennsylvan-
ia; again is one reminded of the rise
of the Progressives in 1910, referred
to above. That year the Republican
nominee came within ten thousand
votes of defeat in the general cleo
tion by the candidate Of the keystone
party which represented the Pro-
gressive uprising against Republican
hOssism. Had the Keystone party and
the Democratic party united that
year. the Republicans would have lost
the State, for the Democrats Dolled