A "PEACE" MEASURE
A "Peace" Measure WAR and jingoism, so rampant in these days, have turned thoughtful people more and more toward consideration of the settlement of international disputes by peaceful methods. \...
...It could not pass without votes from this side of the Chamber...
...I am not the seventh son of a seventh son, but I risk a prophecy, and that is that this is the last river and harbor bill, framed along the lines of the present bill that will ever pass this Congress...
...Thus, by a narrow margin of a TIE VOTE the people of the United States were humiliated and betrayed...
...And he cited the i'Ollowing'from a Washington paper: WOMEN'S VOTES AT $1 EACH—THREE FAIR KENTUCKIANS INDICTED FOR FRAUDS AT A SCHOOL ELECTION .' ¦.Pikevili.k, Kt„ February 6, 1915...
...And their lot is harder than that of the men in industry— the men having votes...
...It is a pity that the whole Democratic party must be held responsible for these expenditures, for this bill could not be passed by Democratic votes alOne...
...Whatever we may think about it, the cold fact remains that our Civilization has allotted to millions of- women and girls their "place...
...Action on it would be forwarded if every citizen in the United States, who believes that his representatives should encourage every step toward the settlement of international problems by peaceable means, would write to his Senators requesting their support of this resolution...
...They, have always put in the headlines the part derogatory to women and have seldom referred'to the fact, which usually existed, of more than ten times as many men being implicated in the same fraud...
...Or will the clear-headed people of this nation resist and thwart such treason...
...President, if the price of holding my seat in this body is to vote for bills of this kind, the seat may go...
...from Ohio (Mr...
...The rising tide of sentiment...
...McLean with Mr...
...The heading of this "news" item was printed in BIG letters...
...There are men on the other side of the chamber who have fought hard for economy...
...An extensive investigation was made by the Bureau of Labor Statistics among establishments employing 335,000 persons...
...Says Steffens : "And that's what Villa or—since Villa doesn't think much—that's what the men and the interests back of Villa thought when they planned that raid into New Mexico, and drew our watching, waiting army into old Mexico after—the bandit...
...Gore...
...Your motto is 'Lot the people squeal.' . "A few days ago the leader upon the Democratic side announced that the appropriations in this Congress would be $200,000,000 more than the last Congress...
...They thought that that would be intervention, and that that would arouse and unite all classes, tribes, and parties of the Mexican people from Carranza down, into one nation to fight with Villa against our people...
...There arc all sorts of ideas about " woman place...
...Progressive Senators—in both parties-fought hard to defeat the indefensible pork-barrel provisions, but they were unable to overthrow the bi-partisan system that makes such raids on the public treasury an ever-recurring scandal...
...McCumber with Mr...
...Many of them emplovecl in industry are extremely youthful...
...The public business should be really public...
...Culberson...
...Abolish "Secrecy" FOR YEARS Senator La Follette has been endeavoring to abolish the "SECRECY with which Congress hides from the public ' .view many of its proceedings...
...Smoot, Sterling, Sutherland, Wadsworth, Warren, Weeks, Works...
...You are so anxious to get rid of public money that you will not even wait for the Army engineers to report...
...President "Wilson says so...
...They will be tried with the 1,100 men who are accused of having committed fraud at the primary election here last August...
...These Republicans voted AGAINST Rublee: Borah, Brady, Brandegee, Catron, Clark (Wyoming), Colt," Curtis, Dillingham, Fall, Gallinger...
...Not voting.—Borah, Bryan, Burleigh, Catron, Clapp, Clarke, {Arkansas), Colt, Goff, OroNna, Johnson, (Maine), Johnson, (South Dakota), Jones, Kenyon, McCumbeh, McLean, Martin, (Virginia), Martine, (New Jersey), Penrose, Pomerene, Robinson, Sherman, Smoot, Swanson, Tillman, Wadsworth, Weeks, Williams.—27...
...Fletcher, Hardwick, James, Lane, Lea (Tennessee), Lee- (Maryland), McLean, Martin (Virginia), Myers, Nelson, Oliver, Overman PoindextEr, " Ransdell, Reed, Saulsbury...
...The majority of the press of the country," he said, "has always been unfair to women in the publication of such incidents...
...It's treason we are talking about: international treason...
...I have received many letters from the people along the Mississippi and the Missouri Rivers, one of which flows the entire length of my State, and the other along a portion thereof, condemning my attitude on this river and harbor bill, and telling what will be done to me at the next election...
...Speaking in the United States...
...Gallinger of the Predatory Interests—that his appointment was not confirmed...
...Shields...
...You are making appropriations for streams, some of them not over 1 foot in depth, and others where we are solemnly told by witnesses that they could navigate the streams if they could get the river in shape so that the stern would follow the bow of the boat...
...There are many problems still unsolved, affecting the relations between the United States Mid the Orient that constitute "sore points" Mid provide food for the jingo press and politicians of all countries concerned...
...The public is not permitted to know what is happening to the public business or what records their representatives are making behind the closed doors...
...What are we going to do with the problem it presents to us...
...Every vote "nay" is n vote AGAINST "pork...
...Senatob Robert M. La Follette...
...The following pairs were announced: The Vice President with Mr...
...And it was only because Rublee is "personally obnoxious" to Gallinger of New Hampshire—Gallinger of the Old Guard...
...The men who are voting for these extravagances will find out that the people do not intend to do all of the squealing, and that they have some notions as to the duty of Representatives in Congress toward the Public Treasury."Some constituents take a different view...
...Gronna with Mr...
...Let it be known to all that the proceedings in the United States Senate on the Rublee appointment marks one of the blackest pages" in American politics...
...merely the vote...
...Treason in Our Midst WRITING in Everybody's Magazine, Lincoln Steffens touches upon the desire of the propertied interests, both Mexican and foreign, for Intervention—that they are "praying and plotting and lying and paying out good money for...
...debate...
...The people may be a little slow in getting at what, is going on in Congress, but they are awakening to the fact that votes are cast for certain appropriations in order that reciprocity may follow fawning...
...This resolution was referred to the Committee-on Foreign Relations...
...It meant giving to the people an able, distinguished, and devoted servant—a man of character, fineness and attainments who has none of the strings,of Special Privilege tied to him...
...McLean would have • voted against him...
...Ayes.—Bankhead, Brandegee, Broussard...
...Even good government will not take care of itself...
...The day is coming when the people's affairs shall be laid open—wide open—before the people, 's eyes...
...Some day a Congress will think along national lines and hot State and district lines...
...Likewise, .the ¦ Senator...
...Myers...
...Rublee...
...The shame that was visited upon this-nation in the Rublee case—behind the closed, guarded doors of a SECRET Senate "executive "ses...
...Three women have been indicted on charges of selling votes in the last school election...
...Taggart) has been inspiring...
...At the conclusion of the executive session, the roll call was printed in the Record...
...These executive sessions are secret...
...You are, appropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars on projects which the Army engineers have condemned...
...You have had an opportunity to correct them...
...It is proposed that this commission should be "composed of three members from the United States, three members from Japan, and three members from China...
...Cloakroom sneers or floor jeers will not stop the fight...
...It must always control...
...Beckham...
...James with Mr...
...The Senate is still slave to a custom...
...If we would secure equal rights for all, we must have an awakened and enlightened electorate...
...sion"—prompted Senator La Follette to introduce the following resolution: ¦ "Resolved, That it' is the judgment' of the Senate that all sessions for the consideration of executive business shall hereafter be open to the public, except when treaties are considered, or when the Senate, by a vote of two-thirds of the members present and voting therefor, shall order otherwise...
...Goff, Harding, Jones, Lippitt, Lodge, Nelson, Oliver, Page, Penrose, Sherman, Smith (Mich...
...Before the final vote was taken Senator La Follette secured the adoption of amendments (discussed on another page) which were designed to eliminate "pork" and to raise the Standard of the bill...
...To the end that existing friction may be removed by a friendly "getting together" and finding a basis of mutual understanding and agreement, Senator La Follette on May 18, 1916, introduced in the United States Senate a resolution requesting the President to invite the governments of China and Japan to join in the formation of an international commission to to study the questions at issue between the Orient and the United States...
...The injunction of secrecy was removed from the vote—not the...
...Every vote FOR Rublee was a vote for Public Interest, for Statesmanship, and for High Service...
...treason to Mexico in Mexico and treason to the United States in the United States...
...IN A DEMOCRACY one principle is eternal...
...Myers took occasion to announce that if he were not paired he would have voted for Rublee while Mr...
...Not Voting.—Beckham, Bryan, Burleigh, Catron, Chilton, Colt, du Pont, Goff, Gron-na, Hitchcock, Hughes, Johnson, (Maine), Johnson, (South Dakota), Kern, Lewis, Mg-Cumber, Martine, (New Jersey), O'Gorman, Owen, Penrose, Phelan, Pittman, Robinson, Sherman, Smith, (South Carolina), Thomas, Tillman...
...Gentlemen may stand here and send word to the country to talk more about progress and less about 'pork.' but the country will keep on talking about "pork" as long as bills of this character are passed by Congress...
...manipulating, the pairs.'' And those who are mentioned unfavorably in this connection are Weeks of...
...Women's "Place" WOMEN receive low wages...
...The secrecy of these proceedings will forever keep the full truth from the public...
...Reed...
...Nays;—Ashurst, Borah, Brady, Clark, (Wyoming), Cummins, Curtis, Dillingham, Fall, Gallinger, Gore, Harding, Hollis, Husting, Jones, Kenyon, La Follette, Lip-pitt, Lodge, Newlands, Norris, Page, Pomerene, Shafroth, Smoot, Sutherland, Taggart, Thompson, Townsend, Wadswtorth, Warren, Weeks, Works.—32...
...And the proceedings of executive sessions open to the public shall be recorded as are the proceedings of legislative sessions...
...Every vote "aye" is a vote FOR "pork...
...If getting appropriations for my State is considered the essential thing by my people, then my usefulness to them in this body is ended...
...The text of the dispatch was printed in small type...
...You would not even correct the worst of them...
...e >» # "Pork" in the Senate REEKING with "pork" the River and Harbor Appropriations Bill passed the United States Senate, May 29, by a vote of 35 to 32...
...The trials of those indicted will be resumed on Monday...
...Rublee's appointment to the Federal Trade Commission was one of the best things President Wilson has done...
...Cummins with Mr...
...The clarion voice of the Senator from South Carolina (Mr...
...Townsend with Mr...
...Distorting News Ik*ANY newspapers make it a practice to "edit" news dispatches in such a way that readers are given a wholly false impression...
...Vet the Senate upheld his complaint...
...du Pont with Mr...
...And the reactionary Sena-ors of both parties continue to join forces when the reactionary Interests call to them for action...
...On the other hand, the proportion twenty-five years of age or over was great enough to suggest the need of vocational training for girls, as was the fact that in many industries the proportion of married women runs from ten per cent, up to sixty per cent...
...Against confirmation—Brady, Brandegee, Clark, (Wyoming), Cummins, Curtis, Dillingham, D u Pont, Fall, Gallinger, Harding, Lippitt, Lodge, Nelson, Newlands, Oliver, Page, Smith, (Michigan), Sterling, Sutherland, Townsend, Warren, Works.—22...
...Senate in favor of equal suffrage, he touched upon the matter of fraud and corruption at the polls...
...The Senator from Colorado (Mr...
...It was alleged in the indictment that the women sold their votes for $1 each...
...You have appropriated money running into hundreds of thousands for ridiculous propositions, for which no man conducting his own business would permit the money to be used...
...New faces will be in the next Congress, fresh from the people, and they will pay some attention to the question of expenditures...
...This Senate is appropriating hundreds of thousands of dollars for streams where Congress has ordered a re-examination and no report has as yet been filed by the engineers...
...Now comes Senator Shafroth of Colorado with' another glaring example...
...Williams.—29...
...We can never safely assume that government will take care of itself...
...Bryan...
...Senator Shafroth : "What an injustice it was to refer in the headlines to only the fraud of three women when the startling fact existed of the commission of election frauds by 1,100 men...
...Every vote AGAINST Rublee was a vote for Special Privilege, for Cheap Politics, and for Personal Spite...
...A Black Page in Politics IT WAS in "executive session" that the United States Senate rejected George Rublee...
...Mr...
...These Democrats voted AGAINST Rublee : Bankhead, Broussard, Clarke (Arkansas), Hardwick, Martin (Virginia), Martine (New Jersey), 0'Gorman, Saulsbuby, Smith, (Georgia), Underwood...
...Said Senator Kenyon : "This Senate is about to pass a bill that few Senators have had the temerity to defend...
...Burleigh with Mr...
...Are these traitorous plotters going to succeed in forcing upon this country the madness of a war with Mexico—a war solely for the purpose of enhancing the value of big investments in Mexico, and of enabling Big Money to continue, safely, exploiting the poor Mexican peons...
...Other leaders said, 'We must practice economy...
...There is enthusiasm for it on this side of the Chamber...
...This bill is to go through...
...Robinson j Mr...
...You are appropriating for others where the testimony before the House committee was to the effect that you could not tell when you crossed the river...
...We are always willing to practice economy on those things which do not concern us...
...Every fair-minded citizen will join in the protest of...
...Democratic, institutions cannot function unless every citizen, may see, "and comment upon, every act of his representatives...
...Mr...
...Husting) has fought hard to .eliminate useless expenditures...
...It reveals how Senators voted on the motion to reconsider the vote by which, on May 17, Rublee's appointment was turned down...
...Whatever the facts may be, they are made to serve the '' policy'' of those who control the publication...
...The Vote On Branded HERE is the vote by which the United States Senate, on June 1, 1916, confirmed the appointment of Louis D. Brandeis as a Supreme Court Justice: For confirmation.—Ashurst, BankheAD, Beckham, Broussard, Chamberlain, Chilton, Culberson, Fletcher, Gore, Hardwtck, Hitchcock, Hollis, Hughes, Husting, James, Kern, La Follette, Lane, Lea, (Tennessee), Lee (Maryland), Lewis, Myers, Norris, O'gor-man, Overman, Owen, Phelan, Pittman, Poindexter, Ransdell, Reed, Saulsbury, Shafroth, Sheppard, Shields, Simmons,' Smith, (Arizona), Smith, (Georgia), SMITH, (Maryland), Smith, (South Carolina), Stone, Taggart, Thomas, Thompson, Underwood, Vardaman, Walsh.—47...
...We have tried to fight this bill in r.o par-tisan way...
...You are dumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into streams where commerce is constantly growing less and in some cases is practically nothing...
...Thomas) has been one of the most consistent advocates of economy in this body...
...La Follette's has frequently called attention to instances of this kind...
...The Senator from Wisconsin (Mr...
...Gallinger presented no evidence...
...Enough of the proceedings leaked out to press'correspondents, however, to arouse general comment over the '' cheap fraud ". of...
...There are men on this side of the Chamber who have and will give enthusiastic support to the bill and defend every item in it, and make possible its passage...
...Siieppard, Shields, Simmons, Smith, (Arizona), Smith, (Georgia), Smith (Maryland), Smith, (Michigan), Sterling, Stone, Swanson, Underwood, Vardaman, Walsh.—35...
...These Democrats voted for Rublee : Ashurst, Clinton, Culbertson, Fletcher, Hitchcock, Hollis, Hughes, .Husting, Johnson (South Dakota), Kern, Lank, Lea, (Tennessee), Lee (Maryland), Lewis, Newlands, Overman, Owen, Phelan, Pittman, Pomerene, Rans-dell, Shafroth, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith, (Arizona), Stone, Swanson, Taggart...
...Tillman) has rung out in warning, and the courageous stand of the junior Senator from Indiana (Mr...
...Some day a Congress will be here that will not consider those the greatest statesmen who can get the most out of the National Treasury...
...These Republicans voted FOR Rublee : CLAPP, KENYON, LA FOLLETTE, NORRIS, POINDEXTER...
...These facts are featured in one of Uncle Sam's recent reports...
...The fight against this method of appropriating public money is going on...
...And that day is coming just as certain as that tomorrow's sun will rise...
...Senatorial courtesy" is still permitted to block the public interest...
...However, the public was granted just a peep behind the scenes...
...In three great industries—cotton in the South, glass manufacturing, and silk manufacturing in Pennsylvania—more than two-thirds of the girls employed were found to be under twenty years of age...
...And it's war the traitors are plotting...
...You are about to vote from the Treasury, in a time of great national stress and strain, at least $20,000,000 in unjustifiable projects...
...And Senator Kenyon, in a brilliant speech, condemned the bill and the low political morals which made its passage possible...
...The "place" of many women to-day is in shops, offices, and factories...
...Johnson of Maine...
...Massachusetts Shields of Tennessee, Jones of Washington, Reed of Missouri, and Vice President Marshall...
...Thomas, Thompson, Tillman, Walsh, Williams...
...The day is near at hand when the representatives of reactionary and privileged interests will no longer find it possible to betray the public and serve their own sordid ends under cover of "senatorial courtesy" and SECRECY...
...President, we are beaten perhaps in this preliminary fight, but this is not the end of the fight...
...the awakened public conscience is against it...
...We appeal our case from a Congress drunk with extravagance to people sober, meditative, and very discriminating.''' . Here-is the roll call...
...He brought forward not a single instance of "obnoxious" conduct on the part of Mr...
...All sorts of schemes and plots have been devised to force President Wilson into Intervention...
...Pomerene) and others who might be named, all of whom are entitled to the, thanks of their constituents...
...Chamberlain, Clark, (Arkansas...
...He said in a public statement that 'there were persons along tha border actively engaged in creating friction between the Government of the United States and the tie facto Government of Mexico for the purpose of bringing about intervention in ths interests of certain owners of Mexican properties.' "The President of the United States would not make a charge of that nature without knowledge...
...Vardaman...
...He is a credit to his State and an honor to the Nation...
...A sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, or so mueh thereof as may be necessary, is to be appropriated to meet the salaries and expenses of the commissioners from the United States who are to be appointed by the President...
Vol. 8 • June 1916 • No. 6
