The Wolf Point herald., 1924-05-01

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his opinion, good and bad laws. He
must decide within few days what
position he will take on the bonus.
He must either approve or reject
the immigration law, but unlike Con-
gress, the President is obliged to con
slider the effect of this particular bill
upon international relations. The Ex-
ecutive must look at all angles and
in this work he must depend large
ly upon a selected staff of advisors.
Aside from giving attention to
these items, the President must ar
range his program to include prepar-
alton of speeches, singing of docu-
ments, reading of hundreds of let
ters which have been carefully sift-
ed by his personal secretary, and
must attend to numerous other du-
ties which fall to the lot Of a No
tion's leader.
Borah's Speech
President Coolidge's comment
that the recent speech of Senator
Borah contained ''logical conclus-
ions on general legislation" is sig
nificant because of the fact that the
Idaho Senator is not recognized par
ticularly as a Republican spokesman.
Leaders of both parties admit that
Senator Borah's statement that
ECONOMY in government public eX-
penditure is perhaps the greatest un-
solved problem of the government
and not party matter but rather
national problem" is without par
tisan favor.
Referring to legislation, Senator
Borah said: 'Tn these days there are
countless remedies being proposed
to help the farmer, but give him
market for that which his inde-
fatigabIe industry produces and
the farmer will neither ask for, nor
accept. the remedies born or pollt-
ical fright. And the way to build
this market is to unchain the latent
energies which taxes have greatly
sterilized and unleash the Initiative
which shameless waste has all but de-
stroyed."
One of the statements made by
Senator Borah was the fact that leg
islators and politicians "underestl-
mate the sincerity, capacity and the
willingness of the voters to do great
things and make great sacrifices for
their country"
A warning against the gradual en-
croachment of the federal govern
ment in business and private life OF |
citizens was expressed. The Senator
predicted that within thirty years, at
the present rate, "there will be an OF
ficer for every ten persons in the Re
public. Every conceivable activity OF
mind and body will be under the dl-
rection and surveillance of a bureau.
Inspectors and spies will leer upon
the citizen from every street and cor
ner and accompany him hourly IN his
daily avocation. Taxes will be a nun
dred dollars per capita"
AS the Senator describes the stu
alton. "it is time to take stock.
The time of the Senate has been
taken UP with debate on the Tax bill.
Democratic leaders claim that they
have sufficient funds to put over the
Democratic tax program which IS
marked departure from the major
ty measure. The Democratic leaders
ave attacked the Mellon plan, which
s advocated by the majority OF mem
oers of the Senate Finance commit
zee. and offer an income tax plan
'or lower rates on normal incomes,
md higher surtaxes, and suggest a
modification of the corporation tax
IS.
Question of Revenue
The question Of revenue and led
.ral expenditures is claiming the at
ention of the Administration. There
ire many bills calling for large out
avs of funds from the public Treas
lrv now pending in the Senate and
House. 1t is said that many OF the
measures are proposed purely for po-
itical effect during a campaign
ear The feeling exists that Con-
ress is quite willing to enact legls-
alton by which it can benefit po-
itically and pass the burden OF the
to the Executive De
,artment. For instance, 1t IS SAID J
hat the Kelly-Edge bill to increase ]
he salaries of postal employees Will
,ass both Houses by a comfortable
majority, giving large increases IN IN
alaries to Approximately 350,OOo ]
.ostal employees. According to the re-
ort of the subcommittee, the bill
yill cover only salary raises and has
10 provision for raising the revenue I
0 meet the additional expense es- ;
imated at from $73,0OO,OOO to
100000. annually.
The suggestion has been made by
hose interested in this legislation
hat the Postmaster General must