Show POLITICS It seems a pity that some United States senators whose names flames are fa ta familiar to all who pay even passing at attention attention to national affairs should occa oca occasionally occasionally descend to tricks that the thed d smallest of politicians would hesitate before attempting The Herald I I recently received under the o ot Senator Gellinger of New Hampshire and consequently at the expense of the tha th government a copy of the senators se sot set speech on the ship subsidy bill Mr Gallinger made a 8 splendid ex ox aC i parte statement of his hs case an ble summing up of the best arguments In favor of this unmitigated grab ThE Th force farce of ot his reasoning and his logic I is utterly spoiled however by a cOlloquy between some other senators and him himself himself himself self Toward the close CIOS of the speech fter after Mr Gallinger allinger had said sald that in th the aggregate te In ten years about would be transferred from the national treasury to the coffers of the ship shipbuilding shipbuilding building corporations Senator Hale Hal Now does the senator from rom New Hampshire remember just what th the 4 k I I amount is that Is set aside for tor the one Item tern for which we all voted for irrigation irrigation gation gatlon In the west Mr Gallinger said that hat would depend upon the income from rom the sale of or the public lands In the arid and semiarid states Senator Hale suggested that the total was not less than han Mr Gallinger thought it t would be ultimately not less 1 than ten times that amount and Senator S Scott said he had been informed that the amount for the coming year would be nearly Very likely replied Mr Gallinger There are now in the treas treasury treasury treasury ury credited to certain states and of course that is going to increase as the lands are sold Now note the peanut character of the colloquy Every Everyone one of the senators taking part in It favors the ship subsidy steal i Every one of ot them hem tried his best to make it appear without sayings saying so in so many words that the irrigation fund is a direct gift gUt gUtto to o the states stat that will be benefited The senators are surely not so Ignorant Ignorant Ignorant ant regarding the provisions of a law for which they all voted that they do donot donot donot not know every dollar of the reclamation reclamation tion lon fund will eventually be returned to the treasury They surely know that when the last acre of land that can be reclaimed has been reclaimed the gov government government will have every dollar It start started started started ed with and very many more More Mare because the government will wUl through irrigation be able to sell land that It could not otherwise have disposed of There Is no more similarity between the national l irrigation act oot and the ship subsidy graft than there is between a plain swindle and a straightforward business transaction The subsidy senators are guilty of a petty attempt to mislead ad the people when they send out by thousands as they have sent out Mr speech such a barefaced fraudulent and scandalously unfair presentation of their case |