Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1922-04-22
PARTY PAP SUPREME
IN REPUBLICAN CIRCLES.


discharges of government employees,
including many former soldiers and
sailors, Senator Caraway democrat,
Arkansas), introduced a resolution
calling upon the president to tell
how many of such former sailors
and soldiers in the classified service
had teen dismissed, denoted or had
their salaries reduced, and cited the
following federal statute:
ain the event of reduction being
made in the forces of any of the ex-
ecutive departm ents, no honorably
discharged soldier or sailor whose
record in said department is rated
good shall be discharged or dropped
or reduce in rang or in salary"
Commenting on this, Senator Car
away said:
"Quite a number of soldiers and
sailors with honorable discharges
who were within the classified serv-
ice have been dismissed from the
service without any explanation.
Three of them are in the bureau Of
G wing and printing. There are
many of them in the navy yard.
There were some of them in the
treasury department, and the depart
ments are dismissing soldiers and
sailors with honorable discharges
whose records are good, and want to
know why.
"There is cry all over this coun-
try now that there is no respect for
the law. How can we complain
when someone becomes a bootlegger
If the highest executive officer in the
land and cabinet officers disregard
he law and deprive men of their
RIGHTS? We cannot build up a re-
sre's for law and at the same time
let these who are charged with the
duty of enforcing it ignore it. The
taw l. as binding upon the president
rs on the humblest citizen in the
land"
Senator Caraway brought on a
colloquy with Senator Sterling, chair
ran of the civil service committee
when he expressed the belief that his
resolution would be smothered in
c7mmittee and then added:
"But there is a court of appeal,
above presidents and above cabinets
to which court these PEOPLE who have
had their character blackened, and
who have been denied the right to
make an honest living, can appeal,
These women who were discharged
can appeal to that court. These ex-
service men. who went out when
congress declared that state of war
existed between this country and
Germany, who laid down their civil
employments and imperiled their
lives and their futures to save this
country, now have their rights taken
from them by the executive and the
cabinet, and they have an appeal. 1t
lies beyond this administration; it
lies in the common sense and fairness
and justice of the American peop e.
and l am confident, sir, despite all
that may happen here, despite what
the senate may do, that the Ameri-
can people are going to hear that
appeal and do justice by these men
and these women. I do not care
whether they vote the republican
ticket or the democratic ticket; they
have a right to look to the executive
and to congress of the United States
FOR justice, and when it is denied
70 there is somebody, somewhere,
who is going to rebuke those who sit
n high places and ignore the rights
of those in humber stations"
The taxpayers top has "Put"
printed on all eight sides.
Let's have disarmament, also, Of
he weapons that kill tine.
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re straight and narrow way.
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