New-York tribune., 1922-11-12
W est Protests
That Congress
Caters to East
Republican Losses Blamed
ON Capitals Indifference
TO Interests of States
Remote From Seaboard
See Leadership Fight
Anderson to Oppose Gillett
as Speaker, Is Forecast
of Minnesota Governor

IRON TIE Tribune's Washington Bsrcou
WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.-Republican n
losses in the West were attributed TO
the general dissatisfaction with Con-
gress, In a statement issued here to-
day by Governor J. A. o. Preus. of
Minnesota.
wholesale assignment of Massachu-
setts members in the House and Sem
ate az 10 important posts. and failure Of
congress to recognize Western mem
I pers were criticized by the MINES ota
executive. He referred to the prob
ape candidacy of Representative An
TO Gillett for the Speakership.
Governor Preus declared the action
Oh Secretary of War Weeks in over
Tuiing former Secretary of War
makers M:k decision granting thousands of
minnesota workers the difference be-
tween War Labor Board wages and
those offered by the employers cost
senator Kellogg many votes.
1oVernor Preus criticized the opposi-
uon OF New York and New England to
tne proposed Great Lakes-st. Lawrence
waterway project, declaring that thou
sands of bushels OF potatoes were rot
ting on Western farms because cars
were not available to ship them to the
sea.
Says West Is Slighted
- The political upheaval in the West"
Governor preus said, ais due to a great
extent to the unpopularity and dis
satisfaction with Congress. The West
reels that both houses are controlled
by by the East and in the interest of the
East. With all respect to splendid
men. such as Vice President Coolidge,
speaker Gillett. Senator Lodge, the ma
1ority leader of the Senate and chair
man of the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations, and Representative
Samuel w. Winslow, chairman of the
House Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce, all come from
Massachusetts and not from the West.
In Minnesota in particular Secretary
Weeks cost Senator Kellogg great
many votes because he overruled his
labor dispute. There is strong feeling
that Western men are needed in Wash
iington; men who know Western prob
lens. For this reason Representative
sidney Anderson is being strongly
urged to become a candidate for
Speaker to succeed Speaker Gillett.
Resent Bar to Waterway
"The opposition of many in New
England, but especially New York. to
the st. Lawrence waterway project La
thoroughly resented at time such as
this when thousands of bushels of DO
tatoes are .rotting on the farms be-
cause the farmers cannot get cars to
ship them in. For instance, one day
last week 1928 cars of wheat were
starding on the tracks at Duluth and
could not be unloaded because the
warehouses were full. These ware
houses were full because the boats
would not take the grain and transport
it to Buffalo, where elevators and
warehouses we're full by lack OF cars
to carry the grain to New York
In the face of such conditions New
York, it's Chamber Of Commerce and
It's splendid but misguided Governor
are opposing the St. Lawrence water
way. so that they may continue to take
toll on the farmers labor. II Gov
ernor-elect Smith Of New York takes
the same attitude as his predecessor he
would not receive enough votes in the
eighteen Western states interested in
the Great Lakes for transportation
purposes to muster corporal's guard.
President Harding, who favors the
treaty, Is popular, but not Congress,
which our people feel is organized
without due recognition to the West"