Show WHAT IS BEING DONE BY OUR CONGRESS BY congressman an DON B COLTON the following under date of march 2 was received by william hooft acting chairman of tho the republican county contra central committee frodi don 11 II colton tolls tells of some of the accomplishments tits of tho the present congress mr colton says 1 I have had many letters late lately ly relative to the work that congress has boon been and ie Is doing and the thought ban occurred to nao that you might bo be in sonic of the becom menta already achieved by ely tho the present administration tho the work of the conference Cont orenco on tho the limitation of armament Is now go so well known and generally approved in tho the country that I 1 need scarcely to tail lall your attention to it the editorial in tho the deseret news of february second states the situation Itu atlon very well ond and surely the rood good resulting not only to the united state states but to the entire world will bo be approved by ull all the great nations of tho the earth havo have mot met together Ruther to in a time of pence and without burron surrendering dering any of their independence or sovereignty havo have worked out a an n agreement which will do more toward towards the reducing tho the chances 0 of f war than anything that has been accomplished complis hed in a thousand thoua and years all parties are compelled to admit that it has his boon been a really splendid achievement unparalleled in the A iv history the association of natrona promised bv president hording harding during his campaign la to now a grand reality and yet american independence remains unchanged and her position as tho loader leader of the world universally recognized I 1 admit frankly that the revival in business fines baa has been at slow alow but it must bo be borne in mind that the present administration has ling boon been in power less than one year two years and a half halt had after the close of ot the war before tho the present administration assumed control nothing had been done toward the reestablishment of the country upon a pence basis tho the wreckage of eight years with ita its waste and burdensome debt lay before bo the new administration when it camo came into power there was universal gloom and business was on a rapid downhill down hill bill movement this was particularly truo true in agricultural districts of course a readjustment period Is always a necessary aftermath of war I 1 think it Is a good think however for us u to consider some rome of the things that havo been u P air m th n congress expired on the ath of maro march h I 1 zis u re e publicans came into control ortho legislative branch of the government when the democrats retired there were eight supply bills which nad not been passed if it the was to function these bills inlet ho enacted into luw law before tho first of july T that hat biado it nece biary fur for president wilson to call the in special session Ro eelon whirl which ho lie wid on mav 19 1919 r I 1 the amount carried in tho the bills 1111 to which I 1 havo have ro referred erred and which were not pissed lj ax thu the democrats before had find geen dennl toly decided apon and most of the bl hlila ai had passed ono one tho the licals took those these bills up for conald consid oration and passage and reduced tho the amount agreed upon by tho the donio domo crate tho the cati casimates mates for th the a following year were submitted by the democratic administration to tho the republican congress fon groB and from the amount estimated it wag necessary to conduct the government tho the congress cut 1474 the estimates for tho the acar wore were submitted by mr air wilsons Wll none administration and from froni tho the amount recommended us as lle acuri eoll nary the congress cut making nn an aggregate reduction of or within about GO of tho the amount necessary to conduct tho the government for the present fiscal year the revenue hill bill recently phased passed reduce reduces tho the present taxes about if tho the reductions above referred to had not oeun anade in the estimated expenses of the gov ae as submitted by mr air wll wil sons administration instead of a ro to of in the tx oa on there would be an increase of it ig Is frequently said that th c st of government la Is too high hut that tx trav trava aRanco gance exists ell tha cost la 18 high but I 1 do not thin extra r panco exists how in joany places place ap o 0 far ag as possible wo we aro are reducing the cost in overy every branch of tho the it Is higher than it should be but that ie Is due to tho the obligations which have come down from the war thit thul t have nothing to do wl wt ii the ceat c et of present activities aa As those these obligations are cleaned up costs will be reduced the republican party has made a good start it came into control oc of tho the congress in 1919 tho the expenses of the government that year wore were over the succeeding year the expenses were and in 1921 and for tho the current fiscal year 1922 which ends june next the estimated expends turee turen arc are that indicates a reduction in cost it why docs does it cost so much the answer ia to simple we have interest charges ch argos sinking fund charge and ot of expenses connected with allotments allowances compensation vocational training hO hospitals insurance and payments to the dependents of dead or wounded soldiers who fought in the lato late war amounting in all to no part of which existed before the war we are continuing to reduce from day to day the first three appropriation pria tion bills which have been presented to the house this session make a further reduction of over the estimates and this thin policy will be continued until the end of tho the session in addition to tho the things set forth above a great deal of legislation looking to the betterment of the ng ag conditions has line boon been enact od indeed this hag ling boun boon called a fur furniere congress certainly it has duno dono everything possible to re alevo thu tho situation as it pertains to re of course we snail shall never nevor got get normal conditions entirely until conditions in tho the world lurly in eurace become a little moro norvial heretofore when the republican party wae was in power it bad had only hud had to deal with questions particularly ticul arly affecting america but now thu tho whole orld in im in a chaotic condition financially when the present congress first convened there wag was and has been from the beginning a strong desire to holp the farmer the emergency turin tariff net act win as passed which protects only agricultural products even DomoL rat are now admitting the benefits of that law bad as an the farmers condition Is now it would have been infinitely worse had all tho the agricultural products of foreign coun countries trios been permitted to come into our country with no tariff because of the high rato rate ot of exchange in favor of the american dollar oven even now our country Is being flooded with agricultural products which are paying 1 the tariff one can easily guess what the prices would have boon been without that measure next the lite so called anti gambling bill was passed preventing pro speculation in A n chopi a unit und the anti packers bill was passed at the instigation of the farmer after a bitter fight 0 vo o ossed the law extending the lifetime life lito time of the war finance corporation men alen who are at all advised know that that practically saved the sugar industry to the west so that tho the so called farmer mer luoc bloc if it may be called such haj done a wonderful amount of good the fact is there Is no particularly ticul arly organized group but only a general friendly sentiment to do everything evory thing to help the far ner whether these efforts bo appreciated or not remains for the future to toll tell the east openly hargo harge that the present congress has ha gone entirely en too far in aiding the fart farmers ners the agricultural in threats undoubtedly prevented the shifting of much of the taxes from the shoulder shoulders of the rich to the middle or less wealthy class the so called fifty per cent amendment to the surtax bill made in the senate and made possible by the representatives of the agricultural states has saved a largo large amount of t taxes s from boing being collected from the men of moderate means and shifted it to the more wealthy Nc althy passage by bv the senate recently of the house cooperative marketing bill by a vote of CS fig to I 1 Is viewed by many of us as the moat most sweeping victory yet attained by the farm bloc blo tills this measure relieve relieves tho the farmers cooperative associations from the application of laws prohibiting trusts or unfair business practices and places authority to determine when such acts have been committed with the secret secretary arv of agriculture ri the next four months of the session of congress promises to be pro hac of results the foreign debt refunding bill Is to bo be followed by the soldiers bonus bill the ship subsidy bill and the tariff bill along with those measures of supreme importance will go a large number of other bills of more or less 1 11 industrial or local interest t trust that this information will ill gie gle you a better understanding what real problems congress hag has to 0 deal with and how much has really been accomplished notwithstanding efforts all over the country to create the opposite impression |