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how many are unemployed want the
facts on seasonal, cyclical and techno-
logical unemployment"
Senator CouzenS, Republican of
Michigan, said hundreds of thousands
of World War veterans were in distress
and he suggested that the Senate pass
bill by Senator Brookhart, Republican
OF Iowa, providing for immediate pay
ment of bonuses to veterans.
Couzens added that he received in
formation from a high administration
source that 100000 persons were
known to be out of work, and he ex-
pressed the opinion that the total num-
Der would be much larger.
He suggested that Congress still could
measure and provide for payment of
bonuses to veterans who are in dis
treSs"
Senator Smoot, Republican, of Utah,
interrupted to suggest that the best
thing the Senate could do would be to
pass the tariff bill, consideration of
which had been held up by the unem-
ployment debate
Couzens retorted that "hours and
hours and hours of time had been spent
in irrelevant discussions of high tariff
rates which were entirely unjustified."
Smoot, during the argument. pro-
pages taken up in the Congressional
Record by each side in the tariff con-
troversy. 1t showed, Smoot said, that
Democrats had filled 1108 pages. Re-
publicans, 1911 q, and insurgents, "
7S81a.
Tariff Leadership Hit.
Wagner assailed contentious that the
delay in enactment of the tariff bill
was responsible for business conditions,
and denounced the leadership of Presi
dent Hoover in the tariff controve~sJ.
He said to blame unemployment on
the tariff is AN unadorned act OF
Tawdry politics"
The Republican party was incapable, i"
said the New York Senator "of writing
tariff bill that you'd meet with the
approval of its own members. The
Republican leadership in Congress was
incapable Of bringing about a redemp-
ton OF the party pledge.
When this breakdown occurred in
the Republican party the President did
not come forward and exercise the
leadership which was the prerogati"e
OF his ONCE. He did not take hold Of
the reinS OF party direction and guide
q united party back to the performance
Of its campaign pledges.
Validating Is Charged.
Instead he was undecided; he was
undetermined; he vacillated; he per-
mitted the West to believe that he was
counted among the insurgents, while
In the East he gave comfort to the Old
Guard. Meanwhile, he drifted and per-
mitted every tide and every wind of
popular fancy to shift his course, and
when a dangerous Shoal was in sight
that intrepid captain gave the gallant
command, Come, let US have breakfast
together"
Senator Wagner recalled Mr.. Hoover's
own suggestions for legislation to meet
unemployment difficulties and asked
what has become of that program?"
We have none Of this Fundamental
information he concluded. I'VE have
no Sterilization machinery. We have
no system of employment exchanges.
AND we have heard nothing further
from the President in regard thereto"
Tess to Make Reply.
AS Senator Wagner concluded his
speech on unemployment, Senator Tess,
Republican, of Ohio, announced he
would reply tomorrow on the floor to
the Democrats statements.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Of Massa-
chusetts asserted that great hostility"
had resulted from the ADMINISTRATORS
participation in denying the facts as
they are" Walsh said that there was
strong and bitter dissatisfaction" over
the program to divert public atten-
ton" He added that to him 1t seemed
'indefensible"