Sen. Borah's Violent Attack on the Ruinous Path of Bonuses Washington, July 6.
An assault on the fiscal policy of the administration and the legislative programme of the majority in Congress was made to-day in the Senate by Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho. He declared the Government had failed, except in a most limited degree, to relieve the burdens of the people and that there was ahead a programme which would add to those burdens not: only millions, but billions of dol-Jars. In that programme Senator Borah named the soldiers' bonus, which he calculated would cost from $4,000,000.000 to $6,000,000,000; the ship subsidy bill, which he said would cost from $50,000,000 to $100,000,060 a year, while at the same time relieving some special classes of a large part of their taxes; the proposed $5,000,000 loan to Liberia, and the bill to create 2% additional federal judges.
"The fact is," said Senator Borah, "the constant increase in Government expenditures has reached the point where it has got on the public nerves, and the people of the country are beginning to manifest it in different ways—sometimes in the ballot box, sometimes in strikes, sometimes in riots and bloodshed—and the first and
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