The New York herald., 1922-10-16

The letter follows:
"I am addressing you in testimony NJ
my appreciation of the great public SER
vice of the present House OF Representa-
tives and of yourself as its majority
leader 1t is an acknowlede which
I record in this manner with the more
satisfaction because OF my warm per-
sonal sentiment for yourself as we'll as
my high estimate OF your performance
in the most trying post under our Gov
ernment. 1t has been a pleasure and
reinsurance to know that your fine re-
sources of patience. sound judgment.
candor and Legislative experience were
always ready for application to the prob
lens which have confronted the Ad-
mnlstration.
Few Congresses have been called
upon for such arduous service as has
been exacted from the Sixty-seventh. II
has been in approximately continuous
sitting from the day il came into exist
ence. In The realm OF achievement its
record is notable. I doubt II any Con-
gress in our history has accomplishcd
so impressive volume OF work touching
so wide a range Of national interest
zone must dissent from the too prev
alent idea that our plan of Congressional
government is not proving equal to the
strain of these times The most casual
student OF history. comparing the legis-
lative record OF the reconstruction period
following the civil war with that OF
the period following the worle war, must
realize that we have gone far toward
lessenng partisan. factional. personal
and sectional strife in the law making
process whoever will compare the
turbulent period of legislative and po-
lltcal history from the close of the civil
war to the end of President Hayes's
Administration with the record made
since the armistice. four years ago. must
agree with this Judgment. He will find
In the earlier period such copvulsions
as marked the impeachment Of one
President. an embittered national cleo
tion contest and a prevalent conflict
between legislative and executive
branches Contrasted with that showing
the buslnesslike fashion IN which tho
sixty-seventh Congress has addressed
itself to IT., huge task ought TO inspire
US with the conviction that conditions
nowadays are met quite as fortunately
as may be expected.
Many Turn TO Us for Help.
Moreover, civil war, reconstruction
was simpler than that reconstruction we
are now carrying on. because following
the civil war it was possible for our
country 10 lean upon the financial and
economic strength OF other countries
which had not suffered by the struggle.
whereas to-day our strength Is the staff
upon which others would lean Then we
could turn for help 70 many others who
were able TO give u. now We find not a
few OF them turning 70 ue FOR help.
IF II be urged that we cannot fairly
compare the conditions OF one genera
tion with those OF another. then let there
he a comparison OF the progress which
our country has been making since the
armistice with that Of any other major
heligerent in the world war. II must
he agreed that we have come through
this trying epoch with less OF distress
and disaster than many others OF the
great Powers
80. whether the comparison Is made
with our own experience in after war
reconstruction a generation ago or with
the experiences of other nations In the
years since the world war. it Is cicer
thrt we have been most fortunate Tlsse
rixty-seventh Congress must be award
ed recognition for splendid achievements
along these lines.
THE two Congresses serving since the
restoration OF peace nave seen world
wide initiation and deflation Or ccun-