KELLOGG'S BAD RECORD
Kellogg's Bad Record THE most compelling argument for the defeat of Frank B. Kellogg on November 7 is his record as a member of the United States Senate. The kindest comment that can be made...
...provisions of the bill demanded by the railroads...
...Later on the same day Kellogg voted against the amendment offered by Ken-yon to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to compel the packers to make full and true reports of their profits, revenues, and costs...
...Agriculture Senator Kellogg stood consistently for the packers and against amendments offered by Senators Norris, Kenyon and other Progressive Republicans to insure stringent regulation of the packers under the bill before the Senate in June, 1921...
...On the first amendment offered to restore the excess profits tax Kellogg voted, October 24, 1921, against the tax...
...Taxation During the debate on the revenue bill in 1921 Senator Kellogg made a clean-cut record for reducing taxes on the wealthy and maintaining taxes at approximately their existing levels on the mass of the people...
...Senator Kellogg again absented himself but was paired against each of the La Follette amendments...
...If the people of Minnesota approve of this record and wish it duplicated for six years more they should reelect Kellogg...
...The records of the committee show that he favored the anti-strike clause of the Cummins-Esch law...
...On the same day Kellogg voted against another amendment offered by Senator Kenyon giving the Secretary authority to investigate the offices, books, reports, slaughter houses, and stock yards premises of the packers...
...If they disapprove of it they must elect Hendrik Shipstead, who will make a record for the people.—LABOR, Oct...
...Kellogg voted to retain in the bill provisions which had been practically indorsed by the "Big Five...
...On June 17 Kellogg voted against the Norris amendment proposing to substitute a bill which would have been of genuine benefit to the farmers, the stock raisers, and the consuming public...
...20, 1922, Senator Kellogg voted for the Fordney-McCumber tariff bill, which is estimated will cost the people three billions of dollars annually in increased living costs...
...The records of the committee show .that he opposed the efforts of Senator h& Follette and others to strike out the $ per cent guaranty clauses and other...
...Tariff On Sept...
...On November 5 and 7 Senator La Follette made his fight for publicity of income tax returns, for an increase in inheritance taxes, and for a plan to reach tax-exempt securities...
...On October 28 and November 7 he absented himself on the roll calls but was paired against the excess profits tax on both occasions...
...The kindest comment that can be made concerning Kellogg for the past six years is that he has served the Harvester ffrust, the Steel Trust, the packers, and the railroads just as faithfully and ably and tirelessly in the Senate as he served them in the courts as their paid attorney £or 20 years before his election in 1916...
...He voted against amendments to continue in force the excess profits tax, thus helping to relieve those corporations which were making excessive profits of $450,000,000 annually...
...This is Kellogg's record on oniy a few of the outstanding measures which have come before the Senate during his term of office, but it is typical of his attitude toward all legislation...
...Newberry ism Senator Kellogg voted on every roll call to sustain Truman H. Newberry, supporting the Spencer resolution to give Newberry his seat, and voting against the Norris resolution to unseat him...
...Since the Cummins-Esch bill became the law March 1, 1920, Senator Kellogg has stood like a rock against any amendment of this statute...
...The records of the committee show that he favored the "railroad security holders and executives" plan of railroad legislation, which was substantially embodied in the Cummins-Esch law as originally framed and finally adopted...
...He voted to report the bill to the Senate, when La Follette and others voted "nay," and he spoke and voted for the bill on the floor of the Senate...
...i The Cummins-Esch Law • Senator Kellogg is a member of the Senate committee on interstate commerce which reported the Cummins-Esch Jaw...
Vol. 14 • October 1922 • No. 10
