Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-03-06
FOREIGN POLICIES
AND CONGRESSIONAL
RECORDS ASSA|LED
Senator Robinson Says Sec
rotary Hughes Denies Sem
ate Information He VoIun-
teered to Reporters

WASHINGTON, March 3.-An ar.
rangement of the Republican party's
record was made by Senator Robin.
son, OF Arkansas, acting Democratic
tloor leader, in statement tonight
reviewing the administrations mill.
cles and acts, foreign and domestic.
president Harding and Secretary
hughes were criticised for alleged
failure to adopt a helpful interns.
t1onal policy and the Republican con.
sress was assailed for alleged fail
ures.
The present administration" said
Senator Robinson, "is now reaping a
harvest Of condemnation and repudi.
alton. The legislative and executives
pohcies advanced by President Hard
ing have broken down. This is at
tributable to the reactionary charac-
ter of the policies and to the ire
concilable factions existing within
the Republican party"
No important legislative achieve
ments. can be awarded the Sixty
seventh congress with a single ex.
ception Of the Fordney- McCun1ber
tariff act" Senator Robinson de.
clared, adding: 81
"All other important measures en-
acted during the congress now ex-
piring have been. of a non-partisan
nature and have received the sup
port Of Democrats in both houses
of congress.
Repudiated by Congress
'"The presidents policies respects
ing the two most important subjects
presented by him. excluding the
British debt settlement act, have
been openly repudiated by the con.
gress. I refer to the ship subsidy
bill and the message recommending
membership for the United States
in the permanent court of interna-
tional justice"
The latter proposal, Senator Rob.
inson said, has been buried by the
leaders of the Republican party in
the senate"
"The Administrations foreign poll
icy," Senator Robinson continued
lis incomprehensible. even to those
responsible for it. The United States
in former administrations took ad-
vanced positions in the promotion OF
arbitration and the establishment OF
orderly tribunals for the settlemenE
of international disputes. Now we
are in the humiliating attitude OF
facing backward and standing Sill
while European peoples in the maze
and confusion of financial and eco
nomic problems which threaten
their undoing are stumbling ana
staggering forward"
Secrecy in Secretary Hughes In
MANAGEMENT of foreign affairs was
charged and deplored by Senator
Robinson, who said that Mr.. Hughes
had discussed recently before an Or
ganization of newspaper men the
country's foreign relations, but had
refused to appear before the SEN
ate foreign relations committee.
Record Is Failure
"The only justification Tor en-
shroudingia foreign policy in solemn
mystery,9 said Senator Robinsons
lis that publicity respecting it 1n+
eyitably would force a change.
1T has come to a strange states
indeed, when the secretary of state
will furnish newspaper correspon-
dents with confidential information
which he denies to the senate"
In domestic affairs, Senator Rob
inson said, Republicans h ave
"shamelessly repudiated" pledges
for a soldiers bonus and have not
acted to relieve farmers and others
from excessive transportation
charges. Republican, internal reve-
nue. tax revision, the Democratic
leader said, has resulted in reliev-
ing the rich and prosperous, while
through the Fordney-McCumber
act, the taxes paid by the masses
have been enormously increased"
"Thus failure, irretrievable fall
ure, marks the record of the admin.
istration throughout the last two
years" said Senator Robinson, in
conclusion.