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Show CONGRESSMEN COMMENT ON THEJESSIGE Variety of Opinions Ev pressed by Members of Upper and Lower Houses of Congress By Internationa p e e ff, YASHIN TON TV T ght e Taldnt a n essaa a o opl f tnrtvvrsatlon he e a sr se to & a d NjsrwnUtt e del d I e r op n o Sr expressed Many s o gl c wKT appro a of e w ho e ago Others, se eral of them Democrats no d m saj whether he pres! lent s e a on praparedneea met with their fa or " revenue proposals of the prestden recel ed coldl HIa ad o a of tl e purohdse bill also ca sed son e rlt u The pea e ad ocates and the little ' fcroup were outspoken In th Ir op Ion to the defense plans wr Leader Kltrhtn chat man of the i and means committee which tr l e the revenue measures said ; was an exceptional stronjr mes would not comment upon the re I proposals or the preparedness pro-Qme. pro-Qme. Mam Criticises. I -MvKlnorlty Leader Mann said If- I am of a practical turn of mind and ' the feature of the president s message tjiat to aw was of the most Interest A 'was the admission that without addl Uonai burdens of taxation the treas myi of the TJnUed btates faces a deft denqy of $X8T 000 006 That shows clearw.tns,t the Democratic party ts Incapable Jaf administering the go etument .Former speaker Uncle Joe Cannon j.ald M ol&les of the President s mes sagSl Utttt welt place in bold type all of the bresident s messass beside his Indlah&poH& speech read it and see If you adart nave mi opinion Besides the whole pgramme Is tro to oon Cress, and I could n t guess what Hs action will he on thexraiious meaantea JDJpsa. I might jdst aa ttell specu ?fiatei If a ohtld a being born whether mother is going to board or keep S&a&reseatatlTO Has, chairman of the Hye committee op military affairs, 5S5 asrqe with Ut. president In prln ijUlkft. but not In details. A continental .OBmii seams to me- to be unwise. W e S8P J the came results by a devil cEpment of the miUBa. In this ooun M< is rery hard to get young men ojitp enter the standing army ffn&ter George B. Chamberlain, chair man. of the senate military committee, latf I isellsve the president should have feEeil the attention of congress a Ut Se store vigorously and a little- more vehemently to the unwarranted Itti tude of England in sweeping our com tiierce from the seas Non partisan Measure Hiiro mam, I agree ipith the prtsi "nentTs defense pfcopos&ls. in some of JbsibttaStx of a cuntlneiital army I 5oiyia3tjBT Personalty 1 am inclined to laob standing army of, say 10 ftp men and drawbg on a. reserve, for j$e4mat of onVrallitary strength ' Bat the fullest discussion of the ..mBttary problem nhcraJd he encour " aced. The blH for the increase of military strength will Joe a non parti san measure. No member's name will be attached to it Representative Flood chairman of the foupe committee on foreign affairs said The message was a little more se vere on foreign born Americans than V I had expected to hear If foreign f, born Americans are cdnspuing Sf against our country however every fJL one of us would like to see the pass Eeeol strict laws dealing with such offense. W" I 40B.1 believe that congress will (Ciever be persuaded to pass a tax on kafaiitoinoMle engine horsepower or gas rapifeiie- It would impose too severe a Wrhnrdun im fanning interests The beet Knoianner of raisins revenue appears to IP' be aix fetcrease of the surtaxes in the S&. Income (as schedule. E&fenator ii B Cummihs of Iowa said l believed, -that a strohger Income tax g&ptildi made the main source of reve IjSif- He eaij ' The rate of the surtax en larger in r comes particularly should be in Xfcreasea I also am inclined to favor ?he lowering of the exemptions so as to take tn. smaller Incomes, The tax 'Ion smaller Incomes should be light, however and should Increase rapidly with the size of the Income Wants Auxiliaries ' v Though the president s message was excellent in many respects I do not think he emphasized sufficiently the need of auxiliary Supply ships I have" heard it said that our fleet cou d not cru se out more than 300 miles with safety li an attack because of the Pitiful la.k of Bupply ships that we have In our service I am strongly In favor of a ship purchase bill for this reason But I would be opposed to having partial private ownership in volvlng the status of these vessels. If they are bought, they should be owned outright by our government They should be used essentially for pubfio good and not for private profit. Senator John Vf Kern of Indiana ma jority leader said In Its essential features the presl dents plan will be approved There will be mutual giving and taking but whatever the result It will I believe, be -satisfactory to the president and to the country Senator William Alden Smith ot Mlchl gan said In style polish and the rhetoric .the message was super His treatment of military preparedness comes with poor grace from one whose lips are still moist with his vehement denun elation of military preparedness two years ago when he only asked that the programme of two previous con stresses should fee carried out. Message "Virile I Senator F M Simmons, chairman of the finance committee said ' It was a virile deliverance prob ably -one of the ablest the president has made It deals with questions of great Immediate interest to the peo le and deals with them in the right way Senator Gilbert 31 Hitchcock of He braska said I was particularly pleased at tl e president s advice to pay as we go Instead of Issuing bon4s. I believe in preparedness with a snggestlon that we nationalize our war manufactures Senator John W 'Weeks of Jlastachu setts The presidents languae in refer ence to many matters in his message is so general that It may be d ffer ently construed by thOBe who read It What does the president mean bv Take no backward steps ? If there is anything wrong with the presi dent s affirmative legls ation or Its re suits how is it going to be corrected without taking a backward step' |
