Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1920 — PARTISANSHIP GONE MAD [ARTICLE]

PARTISANSHIP GONE MAD

Never in the history of any American congress has there been such an instance of partisanship gone mad as in the act of the Republiccan majority on the house ways and means committee excluding minority members from the conferences at which the soldier bonus bill was drafted. No Democrat on the committee was permitted' to even know what was in the bill until it was reported out, when, with the O. K. of the “steering committee,” it was ordered put through the House as a strictly Republican measure. Democrats are citizens and taxpayers and will contribute their share of the revenue with which the bonus is paid, but they were not even allowed to be present when the bill was drafted, much less have a voice in its preparation. How different the attitude of the

Democrats when they were In the majority during the war and consulted and advised with the Republican minority about all war meassures! Democrats and Republicans alike fodght and won the war, and Democrats and Republicans alike have a fight to a voice in adjusting compensation for the men who faced the foe and wrought the victory.