Show TIED TICK FIFTH TH CONGRESS CO GRESS the sixty fifth Cen congress gress juba expired has beon been a body boda of remarkable experiences no N 0 congress in our history has had as many and important problems with which to deal we will all agree that it did many wise and beneficent things and many things that it ft should not have done also that it failed to so do many things that it should have done the summary only shows that a body of men is human and therefore lota both as well intentioned and as liable to err as the individual man we remember that this congress declared a state of war between tho united states state 3 and tho imperial gernian german government and inter bater against the austro hungarian government we gasp when wo learn that in two years year it appropriated nearly 55 billion dollars it passed tho the greatest groa test tax laws in parliamentary history in two years levying ten billion dollars in taxes upon the people and in ill the samo same time it authorized bond issues aggregating twenty two billions billion rt it passed a d taw law to make the country dry after july 1919 for tho duration of the war and then it i passed a constitutional amendment tor for national prohibit prohibition fon after it ic had made Us its great appropriations for different war purposes it usually had to turn to and investigate the application of the funds it was in every sense of the word a militant body when it was not making war appropriations or pursuing war investigations or appointing food or fuel war commissions it was generally engaged in internal dissentious dissent ions with the administration after all it was our congress and a thoroughly american one it did the thing it set out to do supplied the country with nearly four million fighting men furnished the sinews of war for them and stood at their backs while they went through to victory it has packed its valise and gone home to rest and to inspect and repair its ita political fences peace to its cigar ashes and fulfill fulfil ment of its dreams |