The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-05
Republican Leaders Seeking
 To CoUer Up Break Between House Members and Harding

Presldent had warned him against that very course.
 The open break developed then. It has grown by leaps and bounds since the House put over the army | bill, greatly reducing the numbers Of the standing army. and by in eluding an appropriation for rivers and harbors amounting to s42, 100000. disjointed the entire budget system, which is the pride of the executive heart. When the navy bill is put 1 through the House with provisions for such reductions that it will be with difficulty that the United States will be enabled to maintain naval l relationship of 5-5-3 with England and Japan, the executives opinion of the House will not be improved. Jeffers Creates Merriment The above facts were recited by Representative Finis Garrett of Ten nessee. democratic leader, who is not senatorial candidate. Bearing on the same subject, Representative Lamar Jeffers of the Fourth Ala bama district, created merriment. In part he said:
 My friends, in discussing this bill
 on the floor today the majority leader (Mr. MondelD took occasion to talk about the sympathetic, hsr-
 monious and cordial relations be- tween this Congress and the Pres ident. Speaking of harmony l just want to recall to. your minds, my friends, something that happened here on Monday last, when the dis tinguished leader of the majority stood here and pleaded frantically until he looked as if he was going to have apoplexy any minute, and with tears streaming from his voice cried out to the members that they should stand by the budget It was like a voice crying out in the wilder ness and his plea feli upon deaf ears Now, I'm sure he has not forgotten the spanking that the House then gave him when they voted on the ap- propriation for rivers and harbo5s. Republicans and democrats harmon ized on that occasion. but I doubt if the majority leader was able to ap- preciate the harmony.
 When that happened, I was re- minded of the spectacle here last De- cember when a special vote was taken on the surtax feature of the revenue bill. I was new man in the House tand am still one for that matter) but up to that time I had had an idea that the republican leader of the republican majority was. in the eyes of his republican colleagues, something more than a nonentity. I remember my astonish- ment on that occasion when, meta phorically speaking, the House of Representatives took the letter that had been sent here by the Presidept regarding the surtax feature, and with that letter patched up the cloth- ing of the majority leader, reinforce ing his defense as it were, and Con- gress promptly and emphatically placed the toe ofeits boot upon that patch with a solid whack that was heard from one end of the country to the other, resounding, reverber- ating and echoing and re-echoing from the Statue of Liberty to the Golden Gate, and from the wind swept Great Lakes in the north to the sun-kissed shores of Southern Florida. Naughter and applause.)
 The gentleman from Wyoming said today that good folks back home knew of the harmony that ex- ists. He was evidently speaking then, my friends, for the benefit of the good folks back home
 The most harmonious occasions that I have noticed here have been the times when great many of the gentlemen on the republican side of the House have joined with the gen. tlemen on the democratic side and have, with one accord, taken some good wallops at the leadership of the gentleman from Wyoming" (Laugh- ter).