Iron County register., 1922-03-23
Washington Correspondence.
BY WALLACE BAssFoRD.

BY WALLACE BASSFoRD.
WASHINGTON, D. O., March 1S-This
administration has completed its fret
year; the President says that its great
accomplishments "speak for them
selves" II they do, their voice re-
mains unheard by the great majority
OF the people, who are practically
agreed that it has been ayear of vast
ed and misspent time, and that the
people who voted Harding into the
White House have not even "had 9
run for their money" To hear the
voice OF these wonderful but unlisted
accomplishments, the ear of the pub
lie would have to be equipped with
Mr.. Edison's new invention, which is
said to be SO capable of multiplying
sound that it can hear molecule
when 1t turns over for another nap.
The President may have thought
the list of achievements so tedious
that he had no time to enumerate
every great blessing flowing forth to
gladden. the happy and prosperous
toiltrs who make the welkin ring
with their shouts of approval as they
cast their sweaty caps in air. Or
could it be that the list is like the
short aud simple annals of the poor
and would remind the public that the
administration has been trying to dip
away with a teaspoon the ocean of
our dificulties2
What is the answer Here it is
here is the list of accomplishments
completed to date:
1. The appropriation, of twenty
million dollars from the grain corpora
tion's funds lprofits made off Of wheat
growers) to relieve starving in Sec
tion of Russia, while starving at home
10 overlooked.
2. The passage of the maternity
bill with most of the good features
left out.
y. A good roads bill.
4. The Alaska bill, turning oyer all
OF Alaska's resources to the Secretary
of the Interior, 30 he can reward the
friends Of the administration to his
hearts content.
s. Buying Senate seat for New
berry at $2OO,O per.
To list the failures would require
columns. The tariff bill is' deadlock
ed; the re .apportionment bill failed
in the House because the Republican
caucus could not agree on it. The
soldier tonus bill has been dead lock
ed repeatedly and no prophet is so
bold as to predict the outcome. But
the ship bonus Gin this case the money
would 60 to the rich and powerful
ship owners) is being energetically
pushed by the President, Git all de-
pends on who gets the bonus.) The
treaties made by the Disarmament
Conference are held up in the Senate.
This conference, by the way, was pro-
vided for six years ago in the Naval
Appropriation Act OF 1916, ina Demo-
cratic Congress and the law was sign
ed by Democratic President. Even
the money to cover the expenses was
then appropriated; all Harding had
to do was to obey the law and call it.
On foreign immigration there has
been an utter failure to legislate. The
taxation laws have been revised with
measures which even the Republicans
admitar unsatisfactory compromises
Taxation has been reduced very slight
~ and the expenses Of the govern
ment not at all. The Irrigation and
Reclamation Bill has been lost in the
Committee mo action of any sort
Budget reform failure. Almost
every member of the House who has
y spoken on the subject has attacked 1t
And go on through the list-msny
thousands of bills introduced, billions
Of dollars appropriated in excess O.
pre-war appropriations, but no relic
afforded to anyone anywhere. Whea
has risen in price-but it is all out O
the hands of the farmers; they ge
none Of the benefit, but all Of thepeo
pie have to pay more for their foul
and their bread. In only this on
thing has the administration kept it
promise, and this promise has beel
kept to the ear only, for the increas'
at this time is an evil instead OF
good.
Ambassador Harvey and the 18th Amend
ment.