Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1922-07-06
40, 1000 100000 SAVINGS

Harrison OF MISSISSIPPI, rendered a
most important service to the tax
payers of the country when he ex-
posed and controverted a recent state
ment given to the press by SEN
ator Mccormick of Illinois, which bore
evidence on its face of an attempt to
mislead and deceive the American peo-
pie in to the belief that Republican
Congress and the Harding administra-
ton had saved the taxpayers $1,000
U0o,0OO The partisan Republican press
carried 1t under headlines alleging that
the Harding administration had saved
this amount.
In Analysing Senator McCormick's
statement, Senate Harrison said: Il
knew that if the Senator Mccormick
had read the Book OF Estimates he
would not have made that statement.
lie says that in the years 1920, 1921.
l9z2 and 1923 S700,000,G00 was saved
by the Congress over the estimates |
want the country to know the hypoc-
risy that Is pract.ced here, the kind of
misrepresentation that goes into the
press touching the achievements of this
Congress and this administration"
ii ethen showed that the estimates
Tor the fiscal year 1920 were made in
the summer Of 1918 before the war
closed and were based on the continu-
atlon OF the war another year; that
when the war closed the administration
reduced its original estimates between
three and four billion dollars for that
year; And yet said Senator Harri-
son, the Senator (McCormick) sends
WORD broadcast to the country that
Hardlngs administration or he Con-
eress has reduced the estimates 81
0000O0,0O0."
Senator Harrison then cited in detail
the following reductions:
war Department, 1918 estimates.
$l,9lo,OOO,o00, reduced to $1,185, OOO,-
Qua cut of $731 100000.
Navy Department, 1918 estimate
$@,o44,OO0,000 reduced to ST, So 600
Qua cut of $976,0O0,00O.
Fortifications, 1918 estimates, re-
vised from $574,0OO,OO0 to $4,000 900
or a reduction of $481 100000.
Itch fact of the matter is, said Sen
ator Harrison, THAT at that time there
was not Republican President in the
WHITE House and the Republicans did
not control either branch of CONGRESS-
Yet the Senator (McCormick) claims
all that as a Republican achievement
and the Washington Post carries if in
great headlines as Harding saving of
%,OOOOOO,OOO.
That is not ALL" continued Senator
Harrison. Il could take the record Of
the Congress and show even to the
satisfaction of the Senator that the
large reductions for the Army and
Navy and other appropriations were
forced on your unwilling majority by
the Democratic minority, aided by a
few Senators over there"
Referring to Senator McCormick's
statement that "since Warren Harding
took office we have paid off nearly a
billion dollars of the national debt"
Senator Harrison said.
L will tell you how you paid it off.
l have the facts from the Treasury De-
partment. You paid it off by salvaginp
funds and selling surplus goods which
we had purchased to win the war.
You sold those accumulated goods and
wares and the money went to pay off
some of the indebtedness of billion
dollars. Yet you claim that in this
statement as great Republican
achievement"
Concerning reductions in the bonded
debt, Senator aHrrison said further:
i have here the report of the Comp
troller OF february %, 1921 and Au
gust 81, l99lo. The bonded indebted
ness of the United States on August
ST., 1919 while! Wilson was president
of the United States was 26,go4,OOO,-
QUO. Just before he went out, on Feb
ruary 2S, 1921, the debt was $24,OOO,-
OOO,OOO-a decrease of two and half
million dollars from the time of the
Armlstice to the time the Wilson adj
mlnlstration went out of office. Why
did you not give the Democratic adj
ministration credit for reducing the in
debtedness two and half times as
much as you did at practically the same
time that you claim a billion dollars
reduction?'