Bisbee daily review., 1922-07-07
BORAH ASSNLS FISCAL POLICY
 IF GOVERNMENT
Declares Administration Has Failed to Relieve Burdens
 of American People

WASHINGTON, July 6.-An assault on the fiscal policy of the administra- tion and the legislative program of the majority in congress was made today in the senate by Senator Bo3ah, Re- publican, of Idaho. He declared the government had failed, except in a most limited degree, to relieve the burdens of the people and that there was ahead a program which would add to those burdens not only millions but billions of dollars.
 In that program, Senator Borah named the soldiers bonus, which he calculated would cost from $4,O00, ,00O,- 900 to $6,000,000,000; the ship subsidy bill, which he said would cost from S50,000,000 to $100,Q00, ,000 year, while at the same time relieving some special classes of large part of their taxes; tEe proposed $5,00O,O00 loan to Liberia, and the bill to create 25 ad- ditional federal judges
 ''The fact is," said Senator Borah, that the constant increase in govern ment expenditures has reached the point where it has got on the public nerves and the people of the country are beginning to manifest it in differ ent ways-sometime in the ballot box sometimes in strikes; sometimes in riots and bloodshed, and the first and prime duty of party which has the future of this country in it's charge is at all hazards to refrain from increas- ing expenditures, and, if possible, de- crease them.
 If We judge the future by the past, we now have an indebtedness which it will take us more than ope thousand years to lift, to say nothing of the con stantly, increasing burden in the way of increased taxes from year to year by reason of the increased budgets, and it is proposed in addition to that which we already have to lay out of hand, an extra burden of from $4,000,- 100000 to S6,000.0 100000 which it will take us 25O years to pay off.
 "The time may come, and in my opinion, it is very likely to come when the United States will have to stand, as it were, at the Marne on this ques- tion of preserving financial civiliza- tion. The time may come when our reserve, economic and financial will have to be called upon as our reserve of manpower was called upon in 1917 and it behooves the AmCican people and the American congr&s to prepare for that as We would be prepared for the great conflict which confronted us in 1917.'
 Replying to Senator Borah, Senator McCumber chairman of finance com mittee said. the gloomy visions" pie tured by that senator would be dis pelled by courage and intelligence to meet future conditions as they had been met in the past He took issue with Senator Borah as to the cost of the bonus, saying the treasury actuary estimated the cost at about $3,S00.- 000,000.
 "In the last three years" Senator McCumber continued, "the national debt has been reduced $500. .000, 900. Conditions are not as gloomy as we would think after listening to the sen ator from Idaho. God knows we mad enough in this country while the sol diers were fighting to pay the debt we owe them forty times over Neither do l believe we are going to the how VOWS because of extravagance. We are retrenching. We will continue to do so. but we will pay our honest and moral obligations"