Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-01-30
British Money Head
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The Tennessee senator's attack
was the first outbreak in either
House of Congress on the BALDWIN
statement but rUmbling5 of resent
ment had been heard in various
quarters at the capitol since its pub
LEGATION.
Senator Mcclellan quoted Mr..
Baldwin's statement that "the debt
can be founded only on such terms
as can he got through Congress"
and added:
"Evidcntly according to Mr. Bald
win. he had no trouble with the debt
funding commission. or the admin
istration 1t would have been all plain
sailing if it had not been for what
he evidently looked upon as the
ignorant Congress with which he
had indirectly to deal. His indirect
attacks upon the funding commits
sion arc basor than his attacks upon
the American people and the Ameri-
can Congress. He virtually accused
the debt funding corr '~- n of be-
ing putty in his hands and that he
would Lave no trouble in making any
agreement he might have wished if
he had only to deal with that COM
mission"
Senator Mcclellan added that "a
different note was uttered by our
Britis. friends towards the Amcri-
can Congress in May, 1917. when they
came over here to bon. his very
money in order to save their nation"
and quoted the addresses made by
Earl Balfour. head of the British war
commission, in the Senate and House.
Yes. when our British friends
wanted to borrow the s470o, 100000
from us" he continued, "thcy went
| before both branches of the Con-
gross, with compliments ma hattcrv.
! with expressions of good will. with
sentiments of esteem and respect,
with gratitude, which they said they
would never forget, and vet. when
pay day comes around, they send
another commission over here that
deals in the fn'l.
They even. apparently. requested the
American commission not to have any
thing to say about what is going on.
They never came even near either
branch of Congress and then the head
of it goes back and tells the British
people that they could have made deal
for tho payment of these debts to their
Cwn liking if it hadn't been for the
uniformed and purely political Con-
gross that held the American commits
sion back and prevented the British
commission from getting what it de-
sired in the way of 4 cttlemcnt.
II do not know what defense mem
bcrS of the American commission arc
going to make to the slurs and inuen-
dos cast upon them by this representa-
tive of the British government.
Il am sure that Mr.. Baldwin's state
mcnt that western senator's and repre-
Scntatives and western people are ig-
,, norant of international business and
| finance is quite untrue. His statement
that a majority of the senators come
from agricultural and pastoral COM
munities. while technically true. is an
attempted clumsy effort on his part to
statement that tho people in the west
merely sell wheat and hogs and do
and think about nothing else. is a dis
gushing attempt at wit and a shining
display of ignorance.
THAT partisan commission, instead
OF being criticized by Mr. Baldwin,
should have been praised by him. for
it seems to have been under the in
f1uCnce of the British commission in
sofar as secrecy is concerned. They
declined to even state the terms of
the proposals, though asked to do so
nearly every day. and We get the terms
only from the head of the British COM
mission. These terms which, it is
clair :. the American commission Of
fcrcd, are violativo of the expressed
will and determination of the Congress
and they should not have been made
by our commission"