The Connecticut labor news., 1922-12-01
Organizer Schl.>r
 Released Onx il
 Thanksgiving Morning
HARDING FLIRTS
 WITH FARM BLOC
Dangles Patronage in Effort to Se-
 cure Passage of Ship Subsidy.

Having been successful in coercing the House into passing the ship sub sidy bill President Harding is now engaged in trying out his power of patronage on the Senate, with what degree of success it will be impossi- ble to forecast owing to the number of absentees which make foreca&t rather difficult One thing Is certain however and that Is the President can rest assured that the farm bloc is determined upopAthe defeat of his pet scheme.
 Republican leaders have been noti- fled from the White House that un- less they relent in their policy oi luke warmness and in some cases open hostility to the marine bill they cannot expect any presidential favors either
 E As soorf as the democratic fIibus- ter over the nti-Lynching bill sub sides Tn the Senate, probably by Mon day, since the republicans already have acknowledged defeat, the sub- sidy will be dragged in. The Senate commerce commission has called a meeting for Monday morning, the in tention being to present the measure in the form in which it passed the House.
 It probably will be up for debate on Tuesday, unless the President decides to appear again to address Congress and 1t will be crowded by the line oi pressing measures behind it, notably the appropriation bills and reliel measures for the farmer It is highly possible that the anti subsidists will resort to the same fiji bustering tactics that have paralyzed the Senate ever since the AntiLynch- inb bill was called up, for on paper the administration has margin, dangerously slim, but nevertheless sufficient to pass the marine measure by two votes.
 Counter claims are that if 1t came to the point of a vote, some of this support would evaporate by the ready exit of absenteeism. ..-s ..
 Both supporters and opponents of the Lasker-H Harding subsidy agree, however, that there is little likelihood of a vote ever being reached, what ever the. means used to escape it. If Ia hlibuster is Instituted, it will hay in all probability tn sympathy of a sizeable republican following, though ii may not have open support from that quarter.
 Members of the farm bloc, who still hold the ba1ance"o power, are auth oritatively reported as inexorably against the subsidy and determined to forestall it's reaching the voting stage. Outwardly some members of the bloc have shown no vital hostility, but in private councils the bloc is quoted as guaranteeing the defeat of the bill.
 Senator McNary (Rep., Ore.) is listed as supporter of the7 subsidy, but 1t is believed certain his vote will be cast against it. Five democrats were counted as friendly to the bill, but 1t is admitted now that this esti- mate will be reduced to two-Brous- sard and Ransdell of Louisiana.
 Republican leaders ooncede that no reliable poll can be made until absent senators return. There are an even dozen who have not been here since the extraordinary session began.
 Open notice has been given by La Toilette that there can be no Subsidy Bill passed between this time ana March 4 In his fight he will be strongly assisted by Brookhart, the new republican progressive senator from Iowa, who will take the oath Tn day or two