Republican farmer., 1919-10-03
FAMILY FIGHTS
 OF 6. Q. p. ARE
 AIRED IN HOUSE
Present Difficulty Is Over Leadership of Mon
 dell.

1 Washington, D. C., Sept. 2O.---Re-
 publican family. quarrels in Congress appear as far from being settled as ever There is not even much of a semblance of surface harmony in either House.
 It is whispered about that another caucus of the Republican members Of the House of Representative is to be held shortly, the purpose of which IS the deposing of Frank W. Mondeu or Wyoming from his position as party floor leader. AS there are many dls- cordant elements in the majority that have shown their ennity to MT Mon
 dell on the floor of the House and m caucus, it is not unlikely that a gath erfng of the Republican clans can be arranged under the guise of discuss ing party policies. The deposing of
 MT MondeIl will be another matter entirely.
 The general opinion is that there is little chance of pulling down Mondell because there is no one to elevate. True, there are plenay of aspirants, but in the opinion of Republican na- tionaI leaders, no one could particu- Iarly improve upon the present meth ods. James R. Mann, party floor leader during the eight years of G. O.
 P minority, but who was defeated for the speakership, is out of the running.
 His health is none too good, and,
 moreover, his feelings appear to be still somewhat lacerated as a result of the loss of the speakersIip. Also,
 Mondell is Mann's lieutenant and was elected party leader to show the coun-
 try that although Mann himself could not occupy the throne, he still could successfully pull the strings of party
 manipulation in legislative affairs
 Congressman Fordney of Michigan high priest of the high tariff; Fess of Ohio, perpetual party orator; Long
 worth of Ohio, leader of the silk
 stocking element and now purifier,
 and many others would cheerfully as
 sume MT. Mondell's duties but none is
 reckoned Q, commanding enough fig
 ure by his associates to be able to up- set the present monarch of the ma joritr. In 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. Noore'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 wrangle, 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 tc date It is possible that the matter of deposing Leader Mondell will not even be con- sidered but the malcontents are talk ing ferociously at the present time. Although derelict in passing trnpor- tant measures the Republicans are active in suppressing Democratic &C., tivities that promise praise and pub licity Representative William L. Igoe of Missouri some eight weeks ago in troduced a resolution calling for an investigation of the methods of the
 excess profiteers with a view to leg islating some Of their Hl-gotten gains
 out of them The House Committee
 on Rules, Republican controlled, of course, declines to pass it to the
 House and there it remains. Presum-
 ably it is being held up because it is
 ~=. nmocratic proposal.
 = Igoe's belief is that the man
 w. is forced to pay heavy excess
 profits simply raises his prices suffi-
 cientIy to cover his taxes and still
 yield him a fixed abnormal income.
 Take the housing situation in Wash
 ington, for example. The prices of coal nght- gas and the waEas of ian