The Washington herald., 1921-04-17
Both Senate and House
AS a Whole
Unsettled.
CONSIDER FOREIGN
4 TRADE DEMANDS
President Expected to
Oppose Irreconcilables'
Position.
By MARK SULLIVAN.

about our foreign affairs is the COM
position and the sentiments of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions- This body in the past has
Ehared' with the Senate Committee
on Finance the position of being the
most important committee in the
Senate. During the two years fight
on the league of nations the For
eign Relations Committee came into
| the limelight to such a degree and
by its victory over the White House
won such a prestige that it now out
shadows the Finance Committee.
It is the determination Of the For
sign Relations Committee not to sur
render the prestige it recently won
that accounts largely for the present
tension between it and the White
House. In this situation there is a
factor which the public may over
look and which even the Senators
themselves may, N the strength of
their feeling. ignore too much. That
tees victory last year was against a
President Of the opposite party ;Eeir
fight must now be, il they make a
own party.
Intra-Party Fighting Dangerous.
1t is one thing for Republican
Senators to win power away from
q Democratic President 1t is quite
q different matter. in order to keep
that power. to make a tight against
a Republican President. Republican
Senators for their support in their
home States look to Republican
voters. and Republican voters may
well give them support in a fight
against Democratic President
when they would withhold 1t in a
khght against a Republican Presi-
dent.
The Senate Committee on For
eign Affairs consists of sixteen
members. ten Republicans and six
Democrats For practical purposes.
all power Is exercised by the Re-
publican majority of the committee.
This Republican majority, during
the present session. will consist of
the same Senators as during the
changes have been made: Senator
Harding has gone off the committe.
TO become President and Senator
FAN has gone of the committee to
become a member of the Cabiner
The places of these two have been
taken by Senator Mccormick, of
Illinois. and Senator Kellogg, of
Minnesota.
The Republican membership of
the committee as 1t now stands
consists of the following men:
Lodge. of Massachusetts,. Chairman:
McCumber. Of North Dakota; Borah.
Of Idaho: Brandegee, of Connecti-
cut; Kellogg, of Minnesota: Knox,
OF Pennsylvania; Mccormick. of
Illinois; Johnson. of California.
New. OF Indiana. and Moses. of New
Hampshire. This group in its at
tltude on foreign affairs is at least
80 per cent irreconcilable, and
comes close to being 100 per cent
irreconcilable.
IN all the fighting last year Borah
Rrandegee. Mccormick, Knox. John
son and Moses were always irrecon-
cflable. New and Kellogg were
classed as Senators who believed in
adopting the league of nations with
reservations. McCumber was the
one Republican Senator who was al
most identified with the Democratic
position in favoring the league, even
In the original form, II, reservations
could not be made. (
Majority Now IrreconciIabIe.
Lodge. the chairman, last year
between the two factions. This wear
however, not only are there sill
six out-and-out irrecohciIables on
the committee, but in addition 10
that practically all of the other four
have changed their attitude and
their change has been in the direc-
tion Of the irreconci,able position,
McCumber has formally and pub
hcly shifted somewhat away fror,
the position he form -rly had. KEEL
tosg has made no formal change.
OUT W IS clear THAI h. undar.;trnJ,
tne practical difficulty of nisintain
Ing his former position. New has
come close to taking the complete
irreconcilable position.
In the maneuvering of the last two
weeks II is New who has made tha
strongest public declaration in IA
vor Of the irreconcilable position
Lodge, the chairman. from being
last year a moderator between The
two factions, now has a position in
which he practically takes II for
granted that the irreconcilables are
In control, and that his oficial duty
as chairman is to reflect the frre-
concflable attitude.
Two Democrats shalk.
. The Republican majority of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Az.
fairs Is. therefore. completely of the
,frreconcilable attitude in its posi-
ltion on the league of nations. on
the treaty and on our foreign rela-
,tions generally. II by any chance
cfecumber and Kellogg should fan
% stand with the others, their places
sould be filled by members of the
Democratic minority. among whom
ere Is at least one and possibly
2. who In any test vote would
baby stand with the irreconcil-
Republican position rather than
their own party. The entire
hocratic membership of the COM
tee consists of Hitchcock, of Ne
ska: Williams. of Mississippi;
anson. Of Virginia; Pomerene. of
nooxl1ued IN Paxa a societx seefio.