Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-02-15

of dollars, and continued to reduce
them until. for the fiscal year ending
June 80. 1922. the appropriations stood
at $3.s09.000.
Since the present congress has
be en- in" the senator continued. they
have reduced appropriations az. ed
for by the departments of $5,S37 .O0Q. 900
to $l.42s, 100000. This was the work
of the pres mt do nothing congress.
This is partly owing to the fact that
during the year ending June 30. 1921.
90. 634 people were dismissed from the
public service and since the armistice
320,27S people have been dropped from
the civil payrolls. Somebody did
something"
Turning to legislation enacted. Sem
ator Lodge first referred to the rev.
enue act of 1921. ,,.......-
u should have been glad, person.
ally" he said. Ito have made those
surfaces on incomes lower than they
were finally agreed upon, but we were
| compelled to get the money some
where and 1t seemed to the republic
an majority Of the congress that the
| most important relief to be given to
business and the country was by
termination OF the excess profits
| taxes.
1T was thought also Of the first
Importance to get rid of the trans
| portation taxes on freight, passenger
and express kages--a direct our
den on all the business of the coun.
try
The revenue bill, Senator Lodge de-
clared, has really brought a large
measure Of relief from taxes to which
little attention has been paid. The
total reduction ON the best analys sis
which can be made will reach $685.
000.Geo for the calendar year" Iii
Speaking of the bill for the funding
Of the foreign debt, Senator Lodge
| said:
THE United States has no inten-
ton OF playing the pat of q Isuror,
but it was the money of the Amer
| lean people which was lent to the
Allied and add powers in their time
of greatest needs. The debts which
the Unite1 States owed to those I W.
ers she has paid in cash. and has
qGSoliOilSu lUile OI them.
1--WE are y II aware that some per-
haps many. of the nations indebted to
the United States cannot now pay
| their principal or interest. that some
arra' cement must be made to place
| that great drbt upon a brsint IS ba-
sis and to secure what is properly due
! to the United States and her people,
/ for 1t was the people who lent the
money"
| Senator Lodge compared liberty
bond prices of March 4. 1921 with
/ those of the present, and claimed for
Rcpubiican economies, Republican,
tax and other legislation The increase
, III TIE value of United States bonds.
Senator Lodge said he hoped the
people OF Massachusetts would re-
member that "a majority of the
Democratic party" In the Senate tried
to prevent the passage of the treat
les with the central powers.
! After his account of legislation en-.
acted by the congress, Senator Lodge
turned to the achievements of the
armament conference. Abrogation
OF the Anglo Japanese alliance, he
said, removed a "s0l in which the
seeds of war might easily grow"
The four power treaty merely pro-
vidcs, he continued. that we shall
respect each others rights in such
tPacifc) possessions and dominions
and that IL controversies arise we
shall consult before taking any fur
(, thcr measures. There Is no alliance
in it; no military or naval force is
hidden in those simple paragraphs.
The only obligation we assume is
that of consultation"
| Turning next TO the Chinese set
flcnlHnt, Senator L0dce said:
The United States refused abao-
futely to accept the proposition in
regard to Shantung in the treaty of
VercaillGs and believed then, and be-
lieves now, that that province should
be controlled by China. OF which il
has always been part But of the
other eight powers at the table in
| Washington six had ratified the
treaty Of Versailles and had ac-
ceptcd that clause relating to Shan
tunG. Therefor. the only way to get
that wrong undone was to br' =;
about n"rotiations between China, d.
ccctly. This was effected by the good
! Offices of the United States repre-
scented by Mr.. Hughes and of Great
Britain rcnrc"ented by Mr.. Balfour
The result has been that ST. ntung
goes back to China practically un-
, hurdened.