U.S. REPUBLICANS TOW CONGRESS ON ANTIDEMOCRATIC COURSE

Grey River Argus, 9 August 1948, Page 5

U.S. REPUBLICANS TOW CONGRESS ON ANTIDEMOCRATIC COURSE

Attack On The President (Rec 10.5) WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 The Republican controlled Congress adjourned its thirteen-day special session on Saturday night. It did so amid heated political bitterness. One Republican Senator raised a threat of impeachment against President Truman. The special session has ignored most of President Truman's requests, including those for price control, and rationing authority. The nepuoiicau accused the President of seeking “police state" powers. The Republicans wrote their own anti-inflation bill. It is one for a revival 01 war-time curbs on instalment buying, and for increased bank reserves. The only other action taken by emigres was the approval of a loan to the United Nations for the construction of headquarters in New fork. Senator Homer Ferguson, a Republican, who is chairman of the Senate -Committee investigating the Communist spying, to-day suggested that President Truman should be impeached by Congress. He told the Senate: “The Truman arrogance is becoming intolerable. Congress is rapidly being pushed into the intolerable position of having either to legislate through a blind spot, or to compel the President to answer for his conduct in impeachment proceedings.’ He said that President Truman’s refusal to disclose information about Government employees was an attempt to hide his mistakes. “Relations between the President and Congress are being strained to the limit by a policy of secrecy that was first invoked by President Roosevelt.”