Evening star., 1947-08-03

onal Committee "for the things
led at the same time.
follow:
Mr.. Sullivan said of the Republi-
cans: T.
They claim many things but fail
to face the things they did not do"
Mr.. Sullivan directed his COM
ments particularly to Senator Taft,
Republican, of Ohio, and his recent
address in Columbus.
Part Of the formal OF every So
called Republican statement on the
80th Congress, said Mr.. Sullivan,
"is a long sequence of double talk,
false claims, smears of all Govern
ment workers, even cheap personal
attacks at the President.
The simple fact is that the S0th
Congress did not complete its own
narrow and selfish legislative pro-
gram. Senator Taft said the Repub-
licans needed time. They had plenty
of time to play politics with the tax
bill and run it through Congress
twice. That took time that might
we'll have been applied to vital mat
ters such as housing, or raising the
floor under minimum wages, or in
creasing the benefits and broadening
the base Of social security. -.
Time Wasting Charged.
The time wasted on the soak-the-
poor tax bill might well have been
employed in handling veterans
problems or in giving the people of
the country better rent control bill
rather than the IS per cent gun
point rent rise they actually re-
ceived.
Senator Taft made great point
out of the passage of the Taft Hart
ley labor bill. He failed to mention
that he admitted on the floor of the
Senate he did not write a wopa of
the bill which bears his name
Mr.. Sullivan charged that "Sena-
tor Taft and his followers hamstrung
the program by running out on their
responsibility to consider the NOM
nations of the mem whom Presi-
dent Truman had appointed to help
enforce the new labor law. He
added:
Thursday night when Senator
Taft spoke the wild claim of trim
ming the budget by $4,000, ,000, 900 was
repeated. No mention was made of
the fact that the goal was Sc, 600, ,0O0,-
600. No mention was made of the
fact that the most careful and ac-
curate estimate so far available
shows that the actual reductions
amount to only 81 ,267 900 600, which
means that the Republicans missed
their goal by 10 per cent"
Cuts Are Assailed.
These cuts were made, MIR. Sulli-
van insisted, only by a meat-ax
approach that saw unreasoning cuts
in such things as the school lunch
program" which would pay of in
the poor health Of future genera
tions.
He charged, too, that the Repuh-
licans had played the game OF Big
Business; had failed to give ade-
quate aid to soil conservation and
crop insurance. He scoffed at the
"business-like" Republicans who
failed to get a single one of the II
major appropriations bills finally
through Congress before the close
of the fiscal year June 80.
Mr.. Sullivan defended President
Truman's vetoes of both the tax
and labor bills, saying: No account
is taken of the fact that the Presi-
dents veto power is as much a part
of the legislative process as the
House or Senate. 1t Is as much his
duty to disapprove bad bills as to
approve good ones"
In the final analysis, Mr.. Sullivan
said, the record of the Congress was
It's failure to act.
Failures Are Listed.
Here are the things" he added,
which they Republicans in Con-
gress) did not do.
They did nothing to curb in
flationary prices; they did nothing
on food control except with patch
work program; nothing on minimum
wages; nothing to broaden social
security; nothing to train the youth
of the nation to defend our nation;
nothing to improve the educational
level of the nation; nothing on a
Department of Welfare. and moth.
ing to improve the medical care OF
ali the people. The President called
for legislation to meet these PROP
lens" 49,.
Mr.. Sullivan admitted that the
Republicans had made an effort 10
handle foreign policy on nonpar-
tisan basis.
There were some delays, ne
said. land some hanging back on
minor issues, such as the admission
of q limited number OF displaced
nersons into the country from Eu-
rope. but in general the record was
not too bad.
"Yet Senator Taft with heavy
foot strobe forth to speak OF UNITY
hut created dismay by slurs at the
nonpartisan foreign policy;
The President" he added, mas
taken the leadership in efforts to
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