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Show UTAH SENATORS SCORE DEPARTMENTS' WASTE (Continued from page three.) appointment. What good docs it do? Mr. KING. I gives money to the printers. Mr. SHERMAN. Mr. President, will the Senator yield? Mr. SMOOT. I yield to tho Senator from Illinois. McAdoo's Propaganda at Public Expense. Mr. SHERMAN. To my mind that is not nenrly so offensive as the use by the Director of the Railway Administration Ad-ministration before he retired, of rail--way stationery by the ton, scattered all over the United Sfates and our territorial possessions, promoting his publicity, when it was known at the time, or at least he thought, that he wus a candidnte for the President. Mr. McAdoo used a great many tons promoting pro-moting that publicity. I never knew of a reputable railrond president who printed his name ns president of n railroad as a folder which I would lug around in my pocket when I was pay-1 ing much lower rates for travel than I pay now under Government ownership. owner-ship. In addition to that Mr. Newberry's campaign committee in Michignn has been dnmned from Dnn to Bcershcba because he paid his own bills to ad-, vertise his own campaign, and lie is now indicted by the United States I Government and is on trial. Though I ho paid his own blils, he has been severely criticized for it. Mr. McAdoo paid his campaign bills at the expense of the Government and he passes ns a great public example of virtue. Another Matter for Referendum. I would like to sec that carried into the campaign, Mr. President, along . with the League of Nations and with( n statement of an English writer in a recent book that it was "harder to debamboozlc" the old Presbyterian' who represented us than it was originally orig-inally for Lloyd-George "to bamboozle him." I will read that book for the edification edifi-cation of the Senate some day. I want it in tho Congressional Record. It sells at $2.50 a volume, which is beyond be-yond tho reach of the avcrago Senator Sen-ator now after paying his ligitlmate expenses. I shall put it in the Congressional Con-gressional Record, Mr. President the genesis, the evolution, and tho whole Pentateuch of the peace treaty. I would like to 'know how tho Senator from Utah would justify promoting one man and damning another, the latter of whom pnid his own bills. Mr. SMOOT. Of course, I am not justifying it, I will say to the Senator. Sena-tor. Mr. President, just one word more. I do not believe that it would be necessary nec-essary to take 273,000 pounds of print paper to print nny speech over delivered de-livered for distribution. I called attention at-tention to tho fact that there was one speech that I know of that took 48 tons of pnper, and the newspapers throughout the .country reported that all the speeches I referred to took 48 tons. There is one speech that will bo found in tho report submitted by mo today that took 130 tons of paper to print 0,500,000 copies for distribution throughout the . United States. |