Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — TO RESCUE TREASURY FROM SCRAP HEAP’ [ARTICLE]

TO RESCUE TREASURY FROM SCRAP HEAP’

I refuse to send or to be a party to sending the United States treasury to the scrap heap for the benefit of every little river or Inlet tn the country.— Speech of Senator Thomas Taggart In U. 8. senate, May 23, 1916, demanding that 120,000,000 of "pork" be cut from the rivers and harbors bill, and refusing to support that measure.