Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-11-05
ELECTION ASSURES
SENATE'S CONTROL
BY CONSERVATIVES
They Will Make Committee
States Unhampered-very
High Tariff Unlikely.
BY n. O. MESSENGER.

At one stage of the recent cam
paign the republican managers were
in a very low state of mind over the
Senate prospects. They had ter
rible fit of depression, accentuated
by alarming walls from some of the
candidates themselves. Subsequent
events proved their fears groundless
but they were freely expressed at
the time.
1t is true that sounding the note
of alarm resulted in very liberal con-
tributions at the eleventh hour to the
campaign fund-but let that pass.
The consideration which worried
them most in the apprehension OF
close majority in the senate was -thaL
the so-called radicals" in the SEN
ate might control the balance OF pow
er and secure a straRgIe-hold on the
reorganization of that body. That
ghost has now vanished. The con-
servatives- appear to have a hrm
hold on the organization and Will be
able-wfen the new Senate meets to
make up the committee states their
own way
The ten Senate seats captured from
the democrats will be filled by men
who can be counted upon to train
with the conservatives. The repub-
1ican senators who were contested
and who won are in the same cate
CORY. The only radical who came
through was DR.. Ladd of North Da-
kota. non-partisan Lacquer. who
would have voted with the repubM-
''gone on his own" The democrats
sent one radical in the person Of
Tom Watson of Georgia.
Character Of "New Blood"
A glance at the personnel Of the
new blood" in the next Senate will
demonstrate this statement. Short
ridge of California belongs with the
Nicholson of Colorado is classed
likewise. Gooding of Idaho. while
pledged to support Senator Borah's
irrecoqcilable attitude toward the
league of nations, will not follow
him in any radical program Of gem
In Kentucky the old-line repub-
1icans have a man after their own
heart in Ernst, who defeated Beck
ham, Mr.. Weller Of Maryland will
not be found trailing off after any
radical boiter. Former Gov. Oddie
of Nevada will be amenab1e to the
decision of the majority of his party
colleagues. Ralph Cameron Of New
Mexico. well known on account of
his membership in the lower House,
will do likewise.
FORMER Gov. Willis Of Ohio IL
ciassed as conservative. Harrald
OF Oklahoma and Stanchf,eId of ore,
gon Will, 1t IL said, hnd no advantage
IN aaigning themselves with q. a.power-
less minority fefssz n perry ln- ehe
though he did not displace demo-
crat, Mr.. Mckinley Of Illinois. il 4
thorouehgoing conservative
Now, chasing these men as con-
servatiye does not mean that they Will
vote with what il known as the ,"old
guard" on an extreme high tariff. If
simply implies that they win not be
party to an attempt to overturn the
organization Of the Senate and make
the committees Of q complexion which
might hardly be differentiated from
near-democratic.
Position on Tariff.
When It comes to revising the
color. Indeed. the presence of these
newcomers may almost be regarded
as insurance against an excessively
high set of rates in the prospective
new tarin law. They will join those
or the hold-over republican senator's
VINO are opposed to the old republican
Chinese wall against imports.
TO be sure, the House starts a tariff
Dill. out the Senate invariably finishes
it, and usually the Senate's will pre-
walls In the main over the House. In
one notable instance the Wilson
tariff law-the House accepted the
Senate bill without a change.
Senator Hiram Johnson's plan for
nationwide primary on the selec-
1ion of delegates to national conyen-
tions is believed to be facing defeat
IN this conservative domination of
the Senate. After Senator Johnson
though receiving support in states
which selected delegates through the
primaries. failed to get the PRESIDENT
ial nomination, he announced that he
would urge nationwide primaries.
The present temper of the republi-
can party IL believed to be disposed to
curtailing rather than extending the
primary system in politics.
What the attitude of the new sena-
tors on the league of nations NAV
be is only con5ecturaI at this time.
although the inference is that they
will take the verdict of "the solemn
referendum" at the polls as a-pre-
cautionary signal, warning against
following the spirit of the Versailles
covenant.
One thing is certain, in connection
with proposed association of ma
tions to preserve peace-the Senate
of the United States will decide it
President Harding may suggest-and
there his function will cease.