The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1922-07-14
AN ACCOMPLISHMENT RECORD

On June 80 the House OF Repre-
ScntatIycs adjourned Tor six weeks IL
order to give the Senate time to catcl
np with legislation which. under tn,
Constitution, must ORIGINATE in tn,
House. The adjournment day also
happened TO be the last day of the
fiscal year 2922, and marked the end
OF about t. months CT legislation by
a Republican Congress with the coop
Grafton Of IA Republican president.
Congressman MoudclI of Wyoming
took occasion TO review the accomp-
lislmcnts of that period, both with a
view 20 rcIutiug the s%candalous Demo
cratic charge Of a ''do-notling' con
@roSs and TO inform the people gener-
ally a> to what Ia, actually been ac-
compIished SINCE the Republicans
took full control of the Government.
Up TO jane 80 this congress had
placed on the statute books 39S laws,
81 Of them public and s. private.
The House had also passed 27G other
bills, now awaiting the action OF the
Senate. That record is an average Of
two and onc-third bills passed by the
House on each legislative day Of the
congress. The noteworthy measures
enacted by the House. some of them
TO- under consideration in the SEN
ate. is the tax revision law which will
take about $3.50, 600, 900 from the
BACKS of the taxpayers in the present
calendar year; the tariff bill that will
doubtless become law before the end
Of the summer; the budget law under
which an annual deficit has been
w,ncd ont, leaving a surplus of $780,
100000 III ordinary receipts over or
binary expenditures; the peace rcso-
luton ending the technical state OF
war; the veterans bureau act that
consolidated and made far more eff
ciCnt the various agencies for soldier
relief the hospital bill appropriating
81, 200, 600 for additional soldier hos
the forcign-dcbt rcfunding
act by which $11 ,000, 600, 600 of for
cign obligations will be put in def
mite and negotiable form; the FEEDER
al highways act, authorizing appropri-
otionS of about 1000, 900 for high
way construction in the next three
wears: the farmers war finance act,
under which about 5000, 000, 600 has
been loaned to farmers and stock
growers: the Federal maternity act
the immigration restriction act; the
act to regulate interstate commerce in
packers products; the act to prevent
gambling in grain futures: the act to
encourage the formation Of agricult-
ural cooperative associations; the act
extending farm loan law to include
reclamation projects; the antinar-
cotics act; the naval scrapping act to
give effect to the naval limitations
treaty Of the Washington conference;
the act for readjusting the pay of the
Army, Navy and allied services; an
net increasing the pay of Patent Of
fee employees an act for the monthly
payment Of Civil war pensions; the
act appropriating $20,000,O00 for
starving Russians; an act appropri-
ting additional funds for the Farm
Loan board; the so-called Edge law
for the promotion of export trade;
the act making exemptions in home
stead requirements for the benefit
Of eX-Service men: the act ending q
great waste in the public printing;
and numerous others Of scarcely less
interest to the people Of the country.
When the congress finally adiournS
on March !, next. the bills now IN
course of enactment will have become
laws. Ammg them are the tariff
bill, the Shipping bill, anti-lynching
bill, bill to pclassify civil service en-
ployecs, anC score Of others now
pending in one House or the other.
Congressman Mondell is well with
in the truth when he says, mo con
gress ever st under this dome that
was more faithful, diligent, painstak-
ing, earnest more intelligent or
sounder in is judgments and decis-
ions than the present congress"