The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-25
ADMINISTRATIONS IS
 NEAR OPEN BREAK
 WITH BORAH WING
Some Observers ForeSee Sit uation Preventing AmaIga- nation Between Factions
 Prior to 1924 Election
ny HUGH w. ROBERTS Washington Bureau The Age Herald
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 Washington, September 24.-(Spe- ciaD.-Evidence accumulates that the long-smoldering embers of acute dis agreement between the Harding ad- ministration and the progressive" wing of the republican party will soon flare into open flame. Some of the Washington observers feel that as result situation will be brought 'about which will prevent amalgama- ton between the two factions prior to the election of 1924.
 Senator Borah is the mouthpiece if not the brain of the progressive" wing in the Senate. He is a man ot very great ability and if he is anil mated by any other than sincere pur- poses. that fact cannot be demon strated. Today he differs with the re- publican administration as invaria- bly,, as sharply as bitterly and as boldly as yesterday Senator Reed dif- fered with the democratic.
 Borah's most recent and most sig nificant break involves the separate peace treaty entered into by this country and those which constituted the former German empire.
 BOrah Runs Amuck
 The President is exceedingly amia- ble and pacific. He is man of great patience. His particular gift is in the adjustment of disordered situa- tions. But it is regarded as highly improbable that even, a man as well equipped for the purpose as he can prevent the outbursts, with their eff feet, of one so free and untrammeled as the obstreperous Borah.
 hp dn hn fr.,. e,fsr .Js@ ot miscarry intends to run amuck in the remaining days of the extraordi- nary session, and thereafter contin- uously. He intends to step on the {. sensitive toes of Great Britain, fSF'rance and Japan immediately after they are extended under the peace" table. He will discuss the desirabil ity of repeating Panama canal tolls as applicable to American vessels en- gagged in coastwise trade. He will insist that the former allies pay back money borrowed from the United < States. He will advocate using that debt as lever to force disarmament He will discuss the necessity of hold ing the disarmament conference in the open He will scathingly de- nounce the methods of European na- lions in arriving at secret treaties for their own advantage and the disad- vantage of other nations of the world
 And to cap the climax. he promises to oppose the pending German treaty almost as bitterly as he op- posed the agreement of Versailles.
 The Versailles Ghost
 Senator Borah in the new treaty sees a change of verbiage. Behind the lettering, however, ,leers before his n tha Versa files doc ument. He declares that in the Ger nan treaty the United States assumes obligations, suffers foreign entan- elements, jeopardzes its sovereignty, and enters into gentlemen s agreement more binding. if that be possible, than the chains" of the Wilson contract.
 ' It is not ascertained whether the Borah view S shared by the seven or eight other "bitterenders." But should they fall in line, the admin istration would have difficulty in se- curing an early ratification of the treaty. A prolonged fight would cer- tainly result. The democrats, as a rule, oppose the treaty. Many of them will discuss it, bitterly assail it, at length.
 And it is possible that a situation will develop almost identical with that which resulted in the defeat of the Versailles treaty. In the new, the parties will have changed po- sition, and the democrats, assisted by a few republicans, will assume the offensive with the old-lin9 republi- cans in the attitude of defending the administration.
 The Possible Result
 It is so6nown that Senators Borah' Johnson of California, Norris of Me- braska, Kenyon of Iowa. and others of that group, were disappointed when Harding secured the nomina- ton.
 These senators are not working programme for the deliberate purpose of nominating progressive" four years hence. But there is specuia- ton as to whether or not situation will be develped which will put the two factions so far apart that they !. .tCssagree.