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Show Jj I ' I f Coopera J , President and Congress j Citation of Record of Legislation Refutes j " ' , Jj Charges of "Do Nothing" Congress and W Jj ' Shows Completion of Well Defined . V )J 1 Program ' ' jj! V. B. RKPRKSENTATIVE FRANK MOM1EI.L jj jj - ' , j jj (WtOMINdJ, KKI'LUI.ICAN FLOOR LEADKB When the newly elected Republican Congress was convened In special session ses-sion April 11. 1921, the nation was still legally at war with the Central Powera of Europe and the domestic problems confronting the country-were of great- j er magnitude than any previous ad- ministration In the history of the United States had ever, been called j upon to solve. The President and the Congress had 1 a well-defined program of rehabilita 1 tion and reconstruction. In his address I opening the special session of Con- j gress the President asked the passage pas-sage of a resolution declaring a state of peace botween the United States and the Central Powers. He urged, in addition, the enactment of an emergency emer-gency tariff, a permanent tariff, the creation of a budget system; legislation legisla-tion providing relief to agricultural interests; in-terests; federal aid to public highways; high-ways; a new tax law which would lessen les-sen the burden of public taxation and eliminate excess profits taxes; a consolidation con-solidation of the various government agencies handling relief for ex-service men; a maternity and infancy welfare law; a law to punish lynching by federal fed-eral statute; encouragement for and regulation of cable and radio service; and, above all else, rigid economy in appropriations for the operating expenses ex-penses of the Government. The best and the conclusive answer as to whether or not the Republican Congress has co-operated with the Republican Re-publican President in carrying out the program is the citation of the record of accomplished acts. The Emergency Tariff was a law May 27. The resolution reso-lution terminating a state of war between' be-tween' the United States and the Central Cen-tral Powers was' in full force and effect ef-fect July 2. The Budget Law was in force and effect June 10., in time to apply to the new fiscal year beginning July 1. The Sweet Bill to co-ordinate all agencies dealing with ex-service men was a law by August 9. In order to assist the agricultural interests the Congress amended the War Finance Corporation Act, which provided a round billion dollars of new credit for agricultural and live-stock nterests; passed the Packers and Stockyards Act, the Capper-Tincher Act to,regulate grain exchanges and '.he Nelson-Curtis Act, which increased the funds available for farm loans in the sum of $25,000,000. It enacted the Maternity and Infancy In-fancy Welfare Act. It appropriated 575,000.000 for federal aid In building of public highways. It enacted a law for the protection of American owned cable and radio service. It enacted a new tax measure, which reduces the public taxation for the current year in the sum of 5818,000,000, the bulk of which is saved to the man of med'um income. In addition to enacting the Budget Law creating the Budget Bureau, under un-der which all economies which have been made by executive departments were made possible, the Congress, upon its own initiative, cut over $300,-000,000 $300,-000,000 from appropriations requested, by various departments and boards, thus carrying out the President's de-' sire for rigid economy. In addition to carrying out the Pres-' ident's program It enacted a restrictive immigration law. It amended the Edge Act in order to facilitate America's Amer-ica's foreign trade. It reorganized the' Philippine financial system In order to save the islands from bankruptcy as a result of maladministration under the Wilson regime. It reorganized the Indian Bureau and reorganized the, Postal Service and readjusted salaries In that department. In fulfillment of the President's request, the House, passed a permanent tariff measure the Fordney Bill. The House also passed the Dyer Bill, which makes lynching a federal offense and provides for federal punishment of that crime.' In his annual message to Congress in December, the President made sup plementary recommendations, among; them being the enactment of a co-' operative marketing law; the appro-. priation of funds to relieve the famine in Russia; the creation of a commis--sjon to handle the refunding of our foreign loans; and the enactment of legislation to stop the issuance of tax-: exempt securities. Every one of these recommendations has ' been enacted into law with the exception of the one regarding the issuance is-suance of non-taxable securities and a bill to carry that recommendation into effect is now well on Its way through Congress. This record shows that the House co-operated with the President exact-: ly 100 per cent, in enacting such leg-1 islation as he recommended a record , of co-operation between the executive, and legislative branches of Congress j which has no equal in the annals of! American legislation. ' |