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Show WHAT THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS HAS DONE , BY 8COTT C. BONE Hero is the record: Submitted tho woman's suffrage amendment to the states tor ratlp-cation. ratlp-cation. Reduced appropriations a billion dollars yes, $1,089,000,000 below tho Democratic administration's estimates. Returned the telegraph, cable and telephone lines to their owners. Enacted a railroad reorganisation law which Is pronounced one ot the greatest constructive measures ever placed upon tbe statute books. Extendod'and enlarged tho food control act to prevent hoarding. Amended the war-risk Insurance law to Increase the allowances to seriously Injured soldiers. Repealed tbe daylight saving law becauso of the hardships It entailed upon agricultural Interests. Provided additional compensation for Ill-paid and overworked em ployes ot the postal service. Amended tbe federal reserve act to provldo for organlxatlon to promote pro-mote and extend our foreign trade. Authorised by law the Incorporation of the American Legion. Framed and passed a measure to facilitate tho marketing of agricultural agricul-tural products, Including live stock, and Increasing the amounts banks may loan on paper socurcd by farming commodities. Addod a provision to the federal criminal codo to more vigorously punish thott of motor vehicles In transportation. fncreaaod the allowances to wounded and disabled soldiers ot tho World War. Passed an act to enforce tho national prohibition amondmont. Creatod more liberal provision f6r tbe vocational training ot wounded soldlors and sailors. Placed upon the statute books an oil and mineral land-leasing law which opens up tho natural resources of the country and promise.! to be ot untold benefit to tho people. But this is not all. Tho Republican Congress has exposed tho profllgato waste countenanced coun-tenanced by Democratic officials In tho name of war and called a halt to further mlsuso.ot public funds which took tho form ot outright plunder and graft. Iiirubtigatlons have clearly established that millions mil-lions uporrmllllons have been squandered In gct-rlch projects for which tbe taxpayers are today carrying the heaviest burdens In history. This Republican Congress, In the face of obstruction of all departmental depart-mental beads at Washington, has compelled retrenchment and economy by cutting oft appropriations for thousands upon thousands ot useless employes and thus curtailed, the orgy ot governmental extravagance Bui this Is net all. The Republican Congress, through a Republican United States Senate unmoved by pressure at home and abroad, Amorlcanlzod through and through tbe proposed League ot Nations covenant wblcb, otherwise, would have spelled the sacrlttcoot American Integrity to forolgn entanglements, doomed tbe Monroe Doctrino and Iruporllod tho future of the nation. No Congress has ever served tbe country more wisely or patriotically patrioti-cally than this Republican Congress. Its record Is brilliant with achievement and Its great constructive work Is yot only fairly begun. SaaSsMsssMSJgasajMBJgasBSMSJgSg |
