The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-21
CONGRESS LIKELY
 ID IGNORE WISHES
 OF THE PRESIDENT
Harding Anxious for Adjourn ment Before Emissaries of Peace Gather But Ele-
 ment Has Other Ideas
fly HUGH W. ROBERTS Washington Bureau The Age Herald
 300 Davidson Buildin,

Washington Bureau The Age Herald 800 Davidson Building Washington, September 2o.-(Spe- eial)-The President hopes that Congress will rapidly transact essen tial business and adjourn sine die. Rut Congress has no intention of acting in accordance with the wishes of the President
 MT. Harding is anxious, for req sons that are so apparent as to be almost obvious, that Congress be not m session when the emissaries of peace foregather. November II. A certain element of Congress is ue- termined that Congress be in ses- sion at that time. The reasons anil mating this element are readily dis eernable.
 In addition, the so-called agrarian bloc has programme mapped out.
 This bloc Is not strong enough to control But it is strong enough ef- fectually to make compromises out
 of which it secures near victories. So
 there is no chance that Congress will
 transact essential business and ad l journ.
 1 Tariff Is Dead There are 10 weeks remaining be- l fore the extraordinary session runs 1 into the regular session. A tax bill l will be enacted. This Is apparent.
 The President is still hopeful" that
 the tariff bill will be enacted. There IS no chance for the fultiliment of | this hope, it appears.
 Senator Penrose declares he will | introduce the tax bill Wednesday, It
 would cause little surprise. however, Nf HA a
 peace treaty with Germany to sup ! plant the tax bill. And the prohibi- l tionists are not as much concerned, l it appears, in changing the basis of 1 taxation as in further fortifying the | Volstead act. They are sharpening
 their axes for the Stanley amend ment which would protect the home | against unlawful search and seizure,
 and declare their intention of letting
 nothing interfere with their plans. It
 would cause little surprise were the
 advocates of the Stanley amendment,
 in effort to keep dry agents out
 of the home, to resort to hlibus-
 ter.
 The Bloc's Programme | And the farmers advocates, com posing the agrarian bloc, are not
 deeply welded to the tax bill. They think that 1t discriminates against
 the poor, just as the rich thinks that | 1t constitutes a violation of repub- lican platform pledges when it fails | to make retroactive the repeal of
 excessive profit taxation. At any rate, the bloc can see no reason why in suffering the pass
 age of the tax bill, they should
 shelve their own programme. For | they have a programme. Some fea-
 lures of that programme follow: | l. Enactment of "a cooperative
 marketing bill. 2. An increase in the limit of loans of federal farm loan
 banks from $10,o00 to $25,000. 3. Pro-
 vision for the appointment of a | farmer on the federal reserve board. A. Enactment of some rural credit ] scheme so the farmer can obtain
 short time loans on good security. 1 5. A demand for reduction in freight
 rates.
 Critics Are Determined
 The controversy regarding taxa
 ton and the emulation of special business makes 1t certain that Con gress will not adjourn by November
 II. The President thinks it wouiu be unwise, if not violation of good
 manners, for Congress, in the pres ence of foreign diplomats, to discuss
 foreign countries and foreign rela- 1 tions.
 l Senator Borah, on the other hand, 1 and his coterie of progressive as-
 sistants, mean to do that very thing. | They will have much to say of the | disarmament conference, of their se- 1 cret sessions, of the necessity that | Europe repay it's American indebted
 ness, and even of the necessity that l America, irrespective of the confer | ences and any agreement that may | ultimately be reached, further reduce l its naval programme. and the size l of it's standing army And, as pre- | viously pointed out, Borah Will no. | be dissuaded from a contemplated
 course of discussing the repeal or l Panama canal tolls however much | such discussion might offend the
 stranger within "our gates whicn in this instant will be Great Britain Politics still obtain ! There is politics in everything. The I President knows that if the disarma- ment conference is successful, It will be a winning card in the eiectlons next year. He would have Congress adjourn for fear that Congress Will put a fly in the ointment borah and his associates also see an oppor-
 tunity in the conferences. Ihey 1 would be identified as the real power,
 Fate must deal as best 1t could with
 Farrel Gait.
 She lay awake, nerves on the | stretch. and listening intently Tor