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Show !j!l COMMENDABLE l The outstanding fact speaking highly for the present Congress is that in the j first thirty-eight days of the special ses- I sion it passed all the important aupropria- tion bills which the Sixty-fifth Congress I failed .to enact at the regular three H I months' session. It also adopted the Wo- B " man's Suffrage amendment, the bill end- H j t ' ing government control of telegraphs and H i telephones, and a bill apnropriating M ' $6,000,000 for rehabilitating disabled sol- B l! diers and sailors. Another very commend- B ' j able item, the new Congress cut $1,500,- B ."', 000,000 from the amounts called for in B i the measures which fell through last year B -J , This was mad" known in a forceful state- Bjj i Jl ment by Mr. Mondell the Republican floor Hj - leader in the present House. Mr. Kitchin H I ' the Democratic exf loor leader, tried to re- H ' J f ute Mr. Mondell's assertions rcgading , B the money ravedN He insisted that the de- B b ceases in the appropriations were made B i possible by the unforeseen reduction of H i the army and navy and that had the sums H $ t . asked by the administration been appro- B ,i i priated only so much would have been Hp si)ent as was absolutely necessary. He K. -1 maintained, therefore, that no actual sav- Kf'L . in"? had been effected. Mr. Mondell, how- H' over, asked him why the administration H.' v agents had urged the Senate to re. ore K the sums lopped off by the House. But to H thife Mr. Kitchin had no answer to make. H ..Facts are sometimes stubborn things. It BB ,', is an additional ground for public satis- HB , ' . faction with Congress that the appropna- H tionstioarry on the government this H V yeapffiough aggregating over seven bil- B" ..4!' tJK BBr Beq " . v 'i . , ;.,r n'rjxb t' o billiim dollar . h? than tiny were ku'i year. This is a very distinct' demonstration of the value of peace. The nation is beginning to lay aside some of its most pressing financial burdens. Leslie's. |