Fulfillment of Pledges to Be
Issue of Republican Campaign
Congressman Graham
gress In ' Untangling Muddle Made
by Democrats Under Wilson.
((ftllllN fmat tl DM.)
try open 40 the trad and cheap la
bor of the world.
"We closed thrin by temporary
tit Hi tiid will regulate them by
scientifically adjusted thrift law.
Aid For Farmert.,
'We found the former of the
country threatened villi diater at
war coitiractt vlotfd and deflation
from democratic watte and inflation
tame.
"We aided thrm by timely legis
lation through the federal farm loan
system and the War I-inaiice cor
poration, until today farm prosperity
in on the way.
"We . found a itate of, war with
Germany.
"We ended it.
"We found an entangling; League
of Nationi.
"We gate the world disarmament
and a dream of peace realized.
"We found American prestige at
iti lowest ebb.
"We placed it in the forefront of
the nationa.
We found wane.
"We have brought eronomy.
"We found inefficiency and non-co-ordination.
"We enacted budget legislation.
"We found a maze of complicated
obligations and contractual relation.
"We are disentangling them and
clearing the decks.
"In all this we have lud democratic
criticism and opposition."
Points Oat Waste
Continuing the Illinois congress-,
mau set out graphically the extrav
agance and waste of the democratic
- administration which is causing the
high taxes. Jle said, in part:
When President Vilon first as
sumed his office March 4, 1913, the
total interest-paying indebtedness of
(lie United States wag $965,706,610;
on which the annual interest charge
was $22,835,330.40. Labor and money,
were employed; agriculture, labor
and manufacturing were protected by
aa Adequate tariff law, and we were
prosperous. The new democratic ad
ministration enacted a free measure,
and by August, 1914, in a little over
a year from the date the democratic
administration began, labor was un
employed and business depression
and stagnation crept over the land
like a cloud.
Then came the European war, and
by meant of it, the industrial salva
tion of our country. Of our par
ticipation in the World war and the
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Tells of Work of Con
events leading up to it. I shall not
further refer except incidentally, to
ixxut out htrralirr some of the prob
lems we now nave aud their under
lying taue.
"It i entirely safe to ay that of
thii vt sum of over fourteen oil
lions, more than one-half was wasted
and Kiven aay to war contractors,
"If this were all we might wash
our hands of the whole matter. Hut
connected with these expenditures
were thousands of unexecuted con
tracts and contingent liabilities of
the government. Also, many ol
thee expenditures were made aud
contracts entered into after the arm
itice was signed and when there
was every incentive fur economy,
l'or over, year or more after the
armistice, many contractors were
turning out vast quantities of con
tracted goods, when there was no
reason for so doing. To illustrate:
After the armistice, fn the period
from November 14, 1V18, to July 3.
1919, we manufactured and accepted
incredible amounts of war materials
from American contractors, among
other items being 90J.8H6, 37 mm.
hell. I.7VH.096, 37 mm. H. . shells,
IA76.2V0 75 mm. gun shrapnel, 182,
3MJ.1I5 mm gun gas. 322.796 155 mm.
howitzer II. K 115,366 155 mm. gun
aud howitzer shrapnel, 88,882, 3''
Stokes shells, and vast quantities of
other production. Even after July
3, 1919, American factories turned
out for the government, large quanti
ties of sheila and war materials, as,
for example, 50,000 3" 11. . shells,
and 35,000 240 mm. howitzer H. E.
Hundreds of cannon were accepted
by the War department even after
July 3, 1919, as for instance, one
order of 345 240 mm. howitzers cost
ing approximately $10,000 each. Sev
eral of the factories in England and
France were kept running on Ameri
can orders which our War depart
ment would not cancel We received
in France after the armistice, 944 75
mm. guns and carriages of the old
1897 model, 198 155 mm. guns, car
riages and limbers, 700 155 mm. how
itzers, carriages and limbers, and 200
English 60 pound guns, 100 6-inch
guns, 355 8-Inch howitzers and car
riages, and 40 9.2-inch howitzers and
carriages. When one remembers that
the cost of one 8-inch howitzer and
carriage was $54,000 and the other
materials above named in proportion,
it can be appreciated what expend
itures these contracts entailed.
No Cancellation Provisions.
"Not only were these contracts
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continued but moneys of the govern
nieat were used to continue and com
plete other projects autJt as by
product coke ovens for private con
cerns, la tome caw the contracts
were to unskilUully drstn as not
to be subject to cancellation when
the war cloied. In ome case the
administration proceeded with the
rapeuditurtt fully intending to do so.
A fair example of this is the Muscle
Shoal project. - .
That plant was located by Presi
dent Wilton, sgaiut the protest of
his scientific advisers. It was . a
politic! location. It was built with
fund not intended (or that purpose.
A contract was made with the Air
Nitrate Corporation for it conduc
tion which, if valid, puts the govern
ment in the power of that corpora
tion. Seven months after the first
contract was made the War depart
ment deliberately made a new con
tract in lieu of the first, rafting the
royalty if the government should at
tempt to oeprate the plant, after the
war.
"All sorts of emharratsiug and
unfortunate situations arose out of
this war, because of the failure of
the last administration to observe
even reasonable care to secure our
national rights. A better example
cannot be cited than in our sale
of surplus war material to France.
We had over $2,000,000,000 worth of
such material in France when the
war closed, and scores of millions
of dollars worth of this was shipped
to France after the armistice, such
a 30,000 new automobiles. When
we talked of moving this material
home or selling it at retail, France
informed ns if we did we mut pay
$150,000,000 in import tariffs No one
in the administration apparently had
ever had judgment rnough to have
it understood that we vicre not to
be subject to such exactions. We
had no understanding at all. and so.
we naj to sen tnis material to r ranee
on 10 years deferred payment for
$400,000,000. Then France arranged
. . . - m
a sale of part of it to jobbers and
they shipped it into the United States,
without paying any customs duty.
When we passed a bill in the house
to stop this importation, it met solid
democratic opposition, and its timely
passage in the senate was prevented
by democratic objections there.
"Nor was this all of the War de-
fiartment expenditures. There was a
cgacy of debts and claims which will
plague, us tor a hundred years, in
the closing days of the democratic
65th congress, on March 2, 1919, the
notorious Dent act was proposed and
passed. It was claimed it was neces
sary in order to permit a speedy set
tlement of. war claims by the secre
tary of war. After the passage ot
this act it was found that thousands
of claims existed for which there was
not a scratch of pen evidence. Over
30,000 claims were filed before a
hoard set up by the secretary of war.
and as a result of the operations of
the board uo to January 4, 1922,
$484,425,566.11 have been naid out,
much of it without the existence of
a contract, mott of it without an ac
counting, and practically all of it
without any legal justification at all,
except in' the language of the Dent
act itself. During the 66th congress,
the protests of the republican ma
jority in the house of representatives
against these actions of the War de
partment on these claims were fre
quent, but the protests were unavail
ing. To illustrate the loose and gross
ly inexcusable way in which these
claims were allowed, in a recent sum
ming un by Brigadier Gneral Lord,
chief of finance of the army, he finds
on an audit of approximately one
tenth .of these paid claims there has
been overpaid in "these few settle
ments to war contractors. $46,000,000.
"Under various Liberty loan acts,
President Wilson vis authorized to
purchase bonds from the countries
engaged in war with our enemies,
bearing the same interest, of the came
maturities and same ' conditions, as
the bonds we issued and 'old to our
people. Under this authority. Presi
dent Wilson dispensed to our allies
and to a flock of little-nations whom
he was seeking to incubate, immense
sums., which, with the interest ac
crued' and unoaid. nowiamounts to
more than $11,000,000,000. The acts
authorized loans to our allies. Prob
ably $300,000,000 of it " was loaned to
countries not in. the war at all. $1,
500.000.000 of it Was loaned by the secT
retary of the treasury after the arm
istice, and when every reasonable
will concede he had no right to
do so under the law. It as intended.
bv the Liberty loan acts, that we
should buy .the bonds of foreign na
tions. Instead, all that the present
administration found toshow for this
vast sum were memoranda of some
diplomatic agent or - official. Not
only was this true, but there was the
general impression and belief exist
ing, jn every country to which this
money had been, advanced, induced,
no doubt, by the conduct ?nd public
utterances of President Wilson, that
the United States never intended to
collect these amounts. The inconv
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iug administration and republican
toiigrc hat bad, therctore. two
things to do: First to overcome the
erroneous impreton held by for
eiga countries and convince them of
the iircctsity ot paying thrte debts.
Second, to obtain front them the
properly authorised bonds to repre
sent inete arms, even alter the ai
nioit inextricable confusion that had
been created by the last administra
tion in the matter, when a bill was
brought in by the ways and meant
committee to appoint a commission
and adjust these debts, the democrats
of both house and senate opposed
the project almost to a man.
Shipping Board Lost,
"In 191ft. a a nart of th ma.
chinrry for stimulating the building
of a merchant marine, by act of
congress, the shipping board wa
created. After the declaration of
war, congress, by the urgent defi
ciency act ot June 17. 1917, con
ferred vast additional powers upon
the president, to requisition aud build
ships This power, by executive or
der, dated July II, 1917, the president
delegated to the F.mergenry Fleet
corporation. Thereafter occurred the
monstrous expenditures of our ship
ping program. They cost us $J,30.
COO.OOO. Contracts were made with
anyone and everyone who said he
could build a ship, or anything for
one, irrespective of price or quality.
There wa no uuiform plan for these
ships adopted. Mo thought was
given to what use the ships might
be put after the war. There were
no cancellation clauses in the con
tracts, so that if the war ended, the
work might stop. Five hundred
and eighty-nine wooden .ships of
1,885.250 dead weight tons were built,
costing approximately $375,000,000,
and which were absolutely worth
less. Thirty concrete and composi
tion ships, costing about $27,000,000
more, were equally worthless. Two
thousand, two hundred and eighty
eight ships altogether were built and
delivered. Only about 450 of these
were delivered before the armistice
and all the rest, or about 1,838, have
been delivered since the war was
over, and the further necessity for
them had disappeared. Because of
the contracts, which had no cancel
lation clause and the incessant pres
sure of the democratic administration,
ship building when on feverishly un
til the present administration came
into power. One thousand, one hun
dred and eighty ships were delivered
in 1919 and 473 in 1920, the most
shameful part of which was that in
1919, 408 of these were wooden ships,
and in 1920 61 were wooden ships,'
conceded by all to be worthless.
u ing andr taoinetaointaoin nu nu
"When the present administration
came in on March 4, 1921, it tried
to take stock. It now finds about
5.000.000 tons of steel ships which
are salable for approximately $150,
000,000, and estimated other assets
of $190,000,000. It finds claims pend
ing against the government of $298,
428,845.59, which, if allowed in full
would just about wipe out all our
assets and leave us nothing to show
for our $3,306,000,000 of the people's
money expended. Countless millions
had been sunk in Hog island and
every other mudliole in the country
To show the rank incompetency of
the preceding administration, it has
been found that mortgages and other
liens securing the government for
vast sums had not been recorded
and the liens were lost. Liens for
millions which should have beep
taken were not. Vast sums for re
pairs and reconditioning; were charg
ed against the corporation for things
which the slightest care might have
prevented; ships had been sold with
out a cent of deposit or a letter of
security; vast contracts, uncancel
lable, for materials were found. To
illustrate, a contract to take 40,000,
000 barrels of fuel oil a year. The
board is involved in 50 ' concerns
which are in the hands of receivers.
Three thousand, five hundred law
suits in the civil courts are pending
and $62,739,315.76 of claims in the
court of claims, and a business which
is now losing $4,000,000 a month.
Take Over Railroads.
"Pror ito the world war, no coun
try had a healthier railroad condi
tion than did the United States. Ser
vice was speedy, rates for passage
and freight carriage low, and the
roads were making fair returns upon
capital invested. In the two and one
half years from the outbreak of the
European war until our pwn entrance
into that war, this condition con
tinued. In the military appropria
tions bill of August 29,' 1916, a pro
vision had been inserted authorizing
the president, in time of war, to
take possession and control of any
system of transportation and to use
the same as might be needful or
necessary in the emergency. Im
mediately after the entrance of the
United States into the- war with
Germany, various semi-civilian, semi
officials, boards were set up which
began to issue various and conflict
ing priority shipment orders. So
great became the confusion and con.
gestion that the ports of the east,
Bostonian
v,
atf II
19:
notably New Voik, became blocked.
The judgment of thou with utott
intimate knowledge is that offkkl
inefficiency is solely retpoiuible for
this roadition. Then President Wil
son, by proclamation dated Decem
ber 2o, 1917, took over all the trans
portation systems of the country,
absolutely.
"The governmtiil operated the rail
roads until March 1, IV.U On De
cember 24, 1919, the president iued
a proclamation that 00 days there
after, towit; March I, he would de
liver back the roads to private con
trol. Having involved the affairs of
the railroad in Inextricable con
fusion, having permitted their roll
ing slock and equipment to deterior
ate, having inflated their pay-rolls
and maintenance charge by billions,
having destroyed both the credit and
the morale of the roads, the preti
drnt, without the slightett opKiriti
nity for adequate preparation, said to
the congress and the country: 'Here's
the mess we have made now yog
clean it up.' In the two month re
maining, a republican rongres, try
ing to do the brtt it could with a ho
tilcadministratioii, hastily wrote and
passed the transportaton act of 1920.
Durng the 26 months of federal con
trol, the congress, responding to the
urgent and repeated requests of the
administration, appropriated $1,750,.
000,000 from the treasury for the rail
roads. In addition to this vast sum
for the six months guaranty period
under the transportation act, $700,.
000,000 more will be required. In
addition, $200,000,000 will be required
to settle outstanding claim and
$300,000,000 more has been provided
to make loans to the railroads, under
the transportation act. Thus we
find a total burden on the treasury
of $2,950,000,000 caused by the utter
folly of the last administration in
its railroad program.
Lawsuits Pending.
"Nor is this all. Thousands of law
suits are pending in which the gov
ernment has a contingent liability. In
Minnesota alone 6,000 lawsuits orig
inated in one fire. Many of the
equipment trusts and definitive obli
gations we have taken run for ten
years yet. We must maintain a rail
road administration for at least ten
years to come and until its end, no
one can tell what our obligations are.
"Nor was this the worst. No soon
er were the roads under government
control and operation than a system
atic course of exploitation began for
personal and party advantage. Wages
were raised when requested and when
no requested. The total additional
annual burden caused by government
operation was $1,765,000,000. The
prices ol materials and repairs were
boosted to the skies. Executive or
ders were issued with confusinglre
quency, almost all of which tended
to destroy discipline and morale.'
Minimum wages were established for
all branches of the service. A fair
illustration of these orders was that
of Feruary 14, 1918, when Mr. Mc
Adoo ordered: "Mechanics applying
for employment will not be denied
such employment for any other
cause than inability to perform the
.work," and by which order any an
archist or I. W. W, who applied for
work which he could do must be em
ployed. When the government took
over the roads, 80 per cent, of the
cars were upon their own roads;
when the roads went back to their
owners, 80 per cent of the cars were
on other roads, from which they did
not return for long periods.
All this was done without any cor
responding increase in rates to cotn-
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Keaon for High Price,
"Today we have no more serious
problrm than the qur.tion of the re
duclion of our railroad patger and
freight rate. The problem wa cre
ated by the abtoluie lack of wuiloui
and horse , truracieriing the
Wilson admiuitliaiion handling of
the railroad que.mm, Sow they
loudly cry for a reduction of rate
and voeifcroutly denounce a repub
lican congress lor inaction, i am re
minded vt the man who deliberately
foul hi watrr supply aud then loud
ly abuse the board of health because
hi family get typhoid fever.
"Nothing that our people have suf
fered a a rrtult of the war ha been
more biirdeiuonie and opprettive
than the high coM of living. Poring
the war period, and since, and con
tinuing to a cotitiUeratik extent to
day, prices of the nrcettities of lite
have soared to the skies. While high
prices come from war condition,
motttof this stupendous increase is
directly traceable to the lat admin
ittration and it activities."
Annual Debating Coutrt
Will lie Held at Ore ighton
The annual debating contett will
he held at Crcighton university next
Thursday evening, May 18, when
six student from the Art depart
ment will debate for a priae on the
question, "Resolved, That the Kan
sas court of industrial relations
should be extended throughout the
country as a federal institution."
The students who will debate are
Frank C. Charvat, William Klemm,
Alexander McKic, Robert l'atton,
IiiIi'ik I liiimilirpv tnH T!innia I.
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Matt Given $6,280 Verdict
for Notes Due Since 1913
A jury in "District Judge Fitager
aid's court awarded a verdict of
$6,280 to Clarendon E. Adams against
David Guthrie, the Southern Ne
braska Power company of Superior,
Neb., and- C. E. Adams, former na
tional commander of the G. A. R.,
for two notes due liim since Decem
ber 3. 1913.
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by going to no end of
trouble in the choos
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styles and colorings.
These range in price
from , -
$10 to $25.
Boudoir caps make
leisure moments
doubly enjoyable.
Imported
Tub Fabrics
There are loads and -'
loads of things one 1
just can't have too
many of and in the
summertime one of
these is wash frocks.
Ratine voiles and'
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light weight and a
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shades, $1.25 a yard.
Swiss organdies and
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Fur Storage
Now is the time put
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Rate: 3 of your
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Tornadoes Kill Four
in Platte .Valley
tmulM4 Svm I'M OlM i
Vrltcrt, in the path of the tornado,
ott heavily in farm building auJ
stock,
Uvfttock Killed.
Trees were uprooted "4 torn to
ri-ri-, larca number f bvfttock
and poultry were reported killed r
laiugion. i niy vi ', n
longing to a Mr. Beatie. were killed.
1.. ilii u-riiAB the storm took a
path a half mile wide and did not
spend it tury until it rcet.-iiu pum
ner and Eddyville.
a the half doaen farm noutri
dcttroytd near Lexington wa the
rrtideiirc l Benjamin iermsn.
with hi family, escaped injury by
riiiininir (ram lb lilac before tnC
norm struck. Only a few splinters
of the home ol John uuney were
left after the wind, but the occu
unit were saved br retorting to the
baoement.
A crew of 20 men i at work on
the A. T. & T. lines at Hasting. I'.F.
r'renser, superintendent of telegraph
Uw the Union Pacific, left Omaha
Wednesday night for the storm-
wept area.
Cart Turned Over.
Rumors that a Union Pacific pas
senger train had been blown over
were denied by officials here, who
said the only damage suffered wss
the overturning of two freight cart
north of Kearney.
Property d, the Knot County Fair
association was tlrsi roved by a small
tornado which swept over the east
edge of Uloomfield a little after mid
night. Low temperatures in western Ne
braska ami winter weather with
incur and BtrAiicr miikIa at 4hvan
were reported by the weather bureau
here. Heavy rains in parts of the
state are reported.
Mr. B 1. Glrnn nf Hildrrth. who
was attending the Eastern Star con
vention here, hearing of the death
rtf hir liitliant flnrl crtn liff Omaha
for her home accompanied by Mis.
rt . a a
cert Anaerson ana Airs. a. U bcck,
also of liildrcth.
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Revised Hides for
Grain Inspectors
Are Announced
Cbangfi DcsigttrHl to Mct
Situation in Northwest
Without Kstalluliing
Additional Crailrt.
Washington, May II. PUn ft
putting into operation teviwd rul-
governing luctitcd grain in.pectott,
the iiuiigniatioii of a new grain mr
let new service and a "know your
Own whcti" campaign among farm
ers in the spring wheat area were
announced by the United Mate De
partment of Agriculture,
The changes in the inspection rules
are designed to meet the require
ment of the kituatum in the north
west without the ditadvantaget of es
tablithing new or additional gradr.
They provide for reporting, in addi
tion to the actual grade, the iactor
which determine the grade in the
spring wheat clae. The grade
to which the w heat would otherwise
be entitled if these injurious factors
were not present must also be stated,
This will amount to stating the grade
of the clean wheat when considered
al ne.
The purpose of thete ciiange is
to give the batis for price quota
tions by group within grades so
that fanner and local dealers mav
bo better informed a to the exal
market value of any sample f w heat.
While the commercial grade of the
sample will be indurated as heretofore
and wheat will be handled on these
grades, more facts will be shown on
the certificate, together with a state
ment as to the moisture or foreign
material which is responsible fr
grading the sample below what the
wheat alone would indicate.
Read The Bee all the way
through. You will find it interesting.
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. A New
Patent Pump
$10 :
It has the new French ; .
toe and military heel
covered with the pat
ent, a light turn sole s
and broad' instep
strap. Price $10.
. Main Floor
5. E. Corner
J 6th and Harney
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