Show I I I Another Junket The following dispatch recently appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap in the press of the country WASHINGTON April 2 More More than a hundred members of ot congress plan to leave San Francisco on July 6 on the transport Mt Vernon for lor lora forI a two months' months trip to the Orient The I itinerary will wUl include Hawaii the Philippines China and Japan The growing importance of legislative legislative legislative legis legis- Questions Involving the Pacific those trip say say say- necessitates obtaining first hand in Sin Sin- formation The matters to be studied Include the request of Hawaii for tor j statehood the movement in the Philippines Philippines Phil Phil- for independence and Chi Chinese nese and Japanese immigration Chinese Chi I The party will go overland to San Francisco Fran Fran- cl cisco co and on the return Will ill visit Los Angeles and other southern California I cities and pities and the Yosemite National park The first stop will be in Hawaii wh where te the party pIa plans n to spend four or five tl days going going- from m there to the for tor a ten ten-da ten day visit Four days each will be spent in In China and Japan Smaller transports will be available for thorough inspection purposes purposes purposes pur pur- poses in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands members rs said Democratic house members announced announced announced an an- today that they planned the trip from tram New York to San Francisco by way of the Panama canal They I plan to study conditions in the canal zone and arrive in San Francisco in in I time for the Democratic national con con- Just another congressional junket to J be e paid for out of your pockets and by the rest of ot those who wh pay taxes directly and indirectly t to o the federal government Nothing is said about I this in the article ye yet the probability is strong that every penny of expense for tor this senseless joy ride will be I paid out of th the public treasury These I I I I congressmen dont don't c care care r anything about abou t first hand information Two or three men could get all all the data needed although it is likely that the government bureaus bun could supply it A At t great cost to the p people ople naval vessels will be turned over to these thee jovial junketers and presumably allI all expenses will be paid out of the pub public I lic lie funds contributed by the people in inthe inthe inthe I the form of taxes In all aU probability each congressman will carr family family y I ly and several secretaries and flunkeys along all at at the expense of ot the j people These joy riders may cost the federal federal federal fed fed- fedi i eral government several hundred tho thousand sand dollars maybe a quarter of ofa ofa ofa I a million dollars The federal government government government gov gov- is spending more than it is taking in but the prodigal sons in I congress are getting ready to waste a great amount on this wholly unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary I sary trip Some Sonic or of these thes s same me congressmen men I Iwho Iwho who may take a luxurious luxurious' journey at atthe I Ithe Ithe the peoples people's expense have ha been mak I malt ing speeches to the effect that the I for what they people must spend only need must save money must cut I down expenses Why dont don't they set I Ia I Ia Ia a good example by calling off oft this j I shameful waste of the public funds i for their private pleasure Study conditions I More Mor likely they'll study the label on j black bottles and investigate the I kick of the contents thereof Lots Lotsof I of first hand information they'll get 1 but it will likely be about a hula-hula hula dance In the sweat of their brows I ithe the hardworking American people will willi i pay for tor this raid on the public treasury treasury treas- treas I ury because they haven't any better hetter I sense than to keep kelp wastrels in con con- on- on Greenville less gress Greenville Piedmont tin lInd U. U J Dem |