The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1922-03-17
"PASS THE BUCK"
tffGIANS WHO

s proposing a bonus for the
shipping interests who may
be the vessels of our merchant
at marked-down prices at the
B Administrations First An
ry Sale, conducted by Chair
hsker, the republican members
Ways and Means committee
d deadlock over a method of
money to pay the soldier bonus
be republicans promised in the
npaign. 1nasmuch as President
had prevented the passage of
bus bill in the senate, after it
ssed the house, it seemed to
10 him to suggest the means
ng the revenue. This situation
ident promptly and boldly met
testing a sales taxa species
|ation about a spopulad as in
President, being one of the
)st politicians that ever came
larion Ohio, naturally would
I he had performed his part
passed that sales tax buck
Republican congress, but for
md time the fiscal proposals
~ made by the president have
nost instantly rejected by his
ty congress, which let it be
mphatically that it was over
gly against the sales tax. The
rsonal re pudiation of Pres
arding was when he pleaded
pr for 32 per cent maximum
and Congress at once passed
oviding for so per cent.
40ldiers bonus peculiarly re-
party problem. The demo-
Xfograne of reconstruction leg
1 provided for a settlement of
IDS matter without making it
VA question, but the republi-
3Efeated this programme and
ad the subject into politics. And
1ey don't know any more what
about it than they know what to
|alt the tariff or the ship subsidy,
cafrying-on of the agricultural
3sador Harvey and the 18th
Amendment.
|eelns impossible for Ambassa-
arvey to make a speech of late
n arousing the suspicion that he
the principle OF tha
enth amendment. His recent
N Speech at the dinner Of the
1as Society drew from Senator
<Uenl, MOI, a withdrawal Of
ch nade uv the Senator defend
!eappointnent or HarVey, With
y oi IorgiE 3ucss. There 70
EapE IN the Harvey speech
|fhe Missouri Senator could not
ret except in conjunction with
yel'ses beginning:
q SOM Of siX-pencc
tie full OF rye,
and twenty Yankees
= Marched and dry.
the rye was opene
anks began to sing,
mt go home to the U. S. A.,
ave The King"
ator Pat Harrison in a speech
4 delightful irony and humor
At he saw significance in Am
lor Harvey's description of SEN
lnderwood, the democratic lead
9 happy blend of the the fine
of the old South and the high
of the new" The senator
~ The ambassador, using the
blend" was Inadvertently or
6orce of expression, thinking of
|1nE the high spirits of the old
WITH the fine spirits of the new."
a Senator Harrison suggested
kmbassador Harvey be enjoined
talking, and to be told if he
stste secrets to keep them to
I Senator Norris (Rep., Neb.),
this pertinent interjection:
INIT to remind the Senator that
x1u not stop Harvey from talk
Ton cannot send word from a
y mere the Eighteenth Amend
Z ii force to a country that does
~ my prohibitive law, and stop
v rom talking"
" patriotic societies including
80 Legion posts and organiza-
qf various kindsas we'll as pa
lndividual citizens have de
y George Harvey's recall as
's&dor at the court of st. James,
D TAI the demands have been
II the light of Ambassa dor
W most recent speech and the
ents thereon it would seem that
" nope of success for Ambassa-
Iarvey's recall is to refer the
Z to the Anti-Saloon League.