The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-30
FAMILY FIGHTS
 OF 6, ., P. ARE
 AIRED IN HOUSE
Present Difficulty Is Over Leadership of Mon
 dell.

Washington. ID. C., Sept. 2o.---To- cublf,ap family quarrels in Congress appear as far from being settled as ever. There is not even much of ser,blauce of surface harmony in either House.
 Tt fs vybisDered about that another sa,rcua of the Republican members or the House of Represer tattves is TO pc held shortly, the purpose Of Whlch 's the deposing of Frank W. Mondeu or Wyoming from his position as party floor leader As there are many dls- cordant clements in the majority Io'l have shown their enmity to MT. Mon deu on The floor of the House and in caucus. it is not unlikely that a gath ering of the Republican clans can DC arranged under the guise of discuss irg party policies. The deposing or MT Nondeu will be another matter entirely.
 The general opinion is that there is Httle chance of pulling down MondeA because there is no one Co elevate True there are plcnay of aspirohts' but. In the opinion of Republican na- ttonaI leaders no one could parucu- larly improve upon the present melh- ods. James R. Mann, party ho"r
 
 P minority. but who was defeatc1 for the speakershtp. is out of the running. E4s health is none too good and, moreover. his feelings appear to be still somewhat laceratcd as result or the loss of the spcakershlp. Also, Mondeu is Nann's lieutenant and was elected party leader to show the coun- try that although Mann himself could not occupy the throne, he stiI couIo successfully pull the strings of party rnantpu7ation in legislative affairs.
 Congreesman FordnCy of Michigan. high priest of the high tarin; Tess of Ohio, perpetual party orator; Long worth of Ohio. lender of the silk stocking clement and now purifier and many others would cheerfully as sume MT NondeHs duties but none is reckoned a commanding enough fig ure by his associates to be able to up set tho present monarch of the ma Jority Tn the minds of many Demo- crats of the House the Republicans are losing one of their most forceful partisans in J. Hampton Moore of Pennsylvania, who has just been nom mated as the party candidate for mayor of Philadelphia by Senator Boies Penrose. MT. NIoore's election is conceded, and that means that he will resign about the first of the new year.
 So the Republican caucus Is fore cast as another party wransle, an at tempt to speed up the majority into passing some constructive legislation such as the President and the people have demanded, and which has been ignored almost wholly 10 date. IL IS possible that the matter of deposing Leader Nondeu will rot even be con -aI fnvr fa11 ing ferociousIy at tho present time.
 Although dereltct in passing impor- tant measures the Republicans are active in suppressing Democratic ac- tiviies that promise praise and puh- licity. Representative William T.. Igoe of Missouri some eight weeks ago in- troduced a resolution calling for ar investigation of the methods of tho excess profiteers with a view to leg. tslating some of their ill-gotten Eain' out Of them The House Committee on Rules. Republican controlled, u course. declines to pass it 10 tn, House. and there 1t remains. Presum ably 1t Is being held up because it 4 @ Democratic proposal,
 Mir IEoe's belief is that the mai who is forced to pay heavy exces profits simply raises his prices sufh cicntlv to cover his taxes and stil yield him e fixed abnormal income Take the housing situation In Wash ington, for example. The prices O coal. light, gas and tho wages of jan itors are substantially the same a before the war, yet rents have ad vanced from 25 to 60 per cent, an accom- citations are almost impossibl to obtain, at that.
 Mfr Igoe wants to know the meth ods by which the profiteers arrived q their figures, and, what is equally i'm portaut, how much they have mar aged to withhold from the Goverr
 nent in the way of lawful taxes. TT Committee on Rules seemingly do, not care
 Now that the Philad elphia primal election has been held and Senate Penrose has succeeded in defeatir
 his political enemies. the Ware brotl CTS, it is possible that the Pennsylvi nian will return to Washington aft
 an absence of several months and a
 tend to some of the important bi1
 held in abeyance by the Senate F
 nance Committee, of which he
 chairman. The few revenue bf
 passed by the House are still lying
 the dusty pigeon-holes of the Sena
 Finance Committee, and will be un
 Senator Fenrose himself extrac
 them.