The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1922-07-05
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zone Of the most dangerous tenden-
ciesf IN our government is the evil
growth Of bureaucracy and Of on
cialism, and this Ship Subsidy Bill
presents the most fragrant and ar
rogant instance of 1t ever devised"
SO said Judge Davis of Tennessee,
who brings one OF the finest judi
cial minds OF the country to his
service in the House OF Representa-
tives. And there are enough Re-
publicans in the House who are
willing to join hands with the Dem
ocrats to defeat this vicious grab,
but those who have seen how the
thing is done are free to predict
that before the bill comes to vote
the President will have bullied or
cajoled enough members of his own
party into line to put through his
pet measure. "A bonus for the
ship-owners, but none for the SOL
diers," might well be Inscribed on
the Presidents shield, for that rep
resents his attitude to dot. Daily
the Wall Street Journal boosts the
one and knocks the other. Daily
the President does the same. He
has never been for the soldiers
bonus and does not even make good
work Of concealing the fact.
-
quote some of the more pertin-
ent paragraphs from Judge Davis
mastery arraignment of the Ship
Subsidy Bill:
zone of the provisions of the bill
is that SO per cent of the lmmi-
grants to this country shall be
transported in American vessels.
Mr.. Thomas H. Rossbottom, a rep
resentative of the Shipping Board,
who testified at the hearings, esti-
mated that under the present 2 rer
cent quota law this traffic would
give the transporting companies a
gross income of $17,600,000 per
year, of which one-half, or SS,SOc.-
600 should come to American own
ers. He further stated that one
half of this sum would be net profit.
"It is important to note that
this bill does not require the Ship
ping Board to make any report or
accounting at any time to either
the President or to Congress or to
anybody else. Neither does it pro-
vide any appeal on any decision or
action of the Shipping Board or any
other tribunal. Proponents of the
bill also conceive that there would
not be any recourse in the courts.
In other words the Shipping Board
IS all powerful and all supreme I'M
der the provisions of this most ex-
bill. ''H
1.-THE $1,715,000 advertising fund
being spent during the current year
by the Shipping Board is not being
spent in vain," he said, and called
attention to the fact that while
statement of disbursements from
his fund had been promised 1t had
not been filed. He even asserted
hat the social lobby had been ov-
to further this bill and
exhibited expensive propaganda
which had been sent broadcast to
he press and individuals and as
serted that employees of the Ship
ping Board were engaged in this
work for weeks neglecting their
regular duties He declared that the
programme was I'M
,eemly and reprehensible and should
be rebuked by Congress. The worst
feature of it, he said, is that the
is full OF false and de-
ceptive statements.
"Our aforementioned mer-
chant tonnage cost the people about
SO, 900, 100000. 1t is estimated that
we will probably sell the ships for
5000, 0OO, 900. Consequently the
people will stand loss by dehation
Of $2,SOO, 900. Furthermore, 1t
L. bantam nIntnd that nifhpr axisf In q