Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-25
THE OF



CONGRESS adjourned last week
~ rather suddenly. 1t passed a
tariff bill so outrageous in its high
duties and effect in raising the cost
of living that a considerable pro-
portion of the leading republican
newspapers in the United States
have denounced it and still de-
nounce it. They passed a bonus
bill after cutting out of it the rec
lamation of land feature, and a re-
publican president vetoed the bill.
| The attempt to pass the bill over
the presidents veto failed in the
senate. Several republican senators
who voted for the bonus bill be-
came active opponents of the bill
after the president vetoed it, and
~exerted themselves to prevent the
overriding of the presidential veto.
Such weak partizans of the bonus
bill invite doubt as to their sim
certify at any time. The republican
leaders of congress refused the ap-
peal of President Harding to pass
a forty million dollar a year ship
subsidy. AS this page predicted,
they were afraid to put that graft
ing measure on the statute book
before election. There is some
talk of the president calling an
extra session of congress just after
election to get this measure
through. 1t is urged in Washing
ton that it will be much easier to
pass the bill at such a special ses'
sion just after the election than al
any other time, because there Will
probably be a good many members
of congress of the republican per
suasion defeated for reelection
and these will no longer care tol
the public opinion of their constit'
uents. Also there will be a con
siderable number reelected, and
these will feel that if they can sur
vive the record of the republican
party in the last two years at th'
polls, they can get away with any
thing, even to dipping into thu
pockets of the taxpayers to thu
, tune of an additional gift of forty
million dollars a year for the bene
fit of rich steamship companie'
who have already a monopoly O
!, coast trading and heavy mail carry
ing subsidies, but who want
t yearly bonus in addition. If the.
can get this ship bonus dea
. through congress-, there is no tea
-. of its meeting with a presidentia
, veto, whether money is provide
I to pay the bonus or not. The pres
= ident will see that the money
E Forthcoming when the shippin
a magnates call for it, even If tn
{ reclamation fund dries up and tn
/ treasury is short of cash.
: The republican orators are yer
conscious of the failure of the re
publican majority to make good
{ their record, and they are blown
horns and beating party tom-ton
S in an effort 10 district public a
d tention from their conspicuou
n failures. The special interests VIII
t knew what they wanted and got
= in the tariff bill are disposed to b
e generous, and it rumored that tn
e republican congressional canpalg
fund will be larger than ever b'
a fore in a non-presidential year. b
s it is doubtful if even lavish e.
penditures of cash such as Senate
Newberry made to secure his ele'
# ton will save them. 1t may n
.e joice the heart Of the republica
IS boosters who are on to the pl'
n thoric condition of the party trea
it ury, but there is always a disaste
Ie Gus reflex resulting from a bi
s. campaign fund. A certain propo
# ton of the party workers alway
d fail to get their share" and the
d resent the fact that others "ha'
it," and they got only the co.
shoulder when they asked for the
IS share. Such insulted and rejects
t. workers" quite often go out Il
lie revenge by working against the
l. party. Therefore, the knowledi
S. that the republican national co
gressional committee has plenty