Evening star., 1922-06-11
BY Y. o. MESSENGER.

approach and mems temper
4 becomes frazzled. will have
enough veXatfons and con-
tentions questions before it to cause
II to long for that late summer ad-
1ournment which the leaders-in
moment of temporary optimism or
mind-have promised. While the
rank and file do not share the fond
belief of those higher up that Con
gress can get away soon, they
would like to see it done and various
plans are suggested to expedite the
happy day when the gavel falls IN
both houses.
In the House there is division or
opinion among the leaders as to pro-
Cedure. Some Of the influential mem
bers think that il would help Il whole
lot in bringing adjournment ii the
House should take three-day recesSeS,
thus bringing the attention of the
public to bear upon the Senate in its
alleged prolonging of tariff debate.
The men who take this "iew say 1t
has been often shown in the past that
the Senate can do business with
marvellous dispatch and CELEBRITY
when 1t wants to, and that 1t might
be a good thing for the House TO
show that it is willing to knock on.
and let the country take 1t out on
the Senate for delay In enacting the
tariff and bonus legislation.
Other leaders. however contend
that the Congress IS .'iu bad with
the country. apparently. and that IL
might not look We'll for one branch
to seem to BE- idle. even though the
House has cleaned up marvellous
mass of legislation.
Democrats Charged
With Delaying Tariff.
Tt is a fact. as experience has
demonstrated, that once the Senate
makes up its mind to do so, 1t can
DO lot of work in short order. Why
does 1t not do so in this instance. and
clean up the tariff and bonus bills? is
asked. There are conflicting answers
to that question. and nobody Is more
interested in knowing why than Sem
ator McCumher. chairman of the COM
n,ittee ON finance, who has both bills
in charge.
Frequently the charge has been
made on the floor of the Senate by
impatient republicans that the demo
Gratis are delaying action on the tariff
bill in order to bring about Its en-
actment into law just prior to the
November elections. The democrats
are supposed to be obsessed with the
idea that this bill is the very worst
tariff egislation ever proposed ana
that the country. when it finds out its
full iniquity, will rise in wrath and
smite the republicans hip and thigh.
But the democrats blandly and with
an expression of injured feelings
utterly deny any such Interior de-
signs and contend that their only in
terest is to see that such q highly
important measure receives the con-
sideration due ii.
Farm Bloc Independence
Causes Complications.
With farm bloc holding the bal
ance Of power. and thereby cutting
into the solidarity Of the republican
organization in the Senate, Chairman
McCumber IS finding difficulties in
uushing the tariff bill which some of
his predecessors in handling tariff
bills were spared. In the past in
stances were few in the Senate when
the committee in charge of the tariff
bill was overruled, but the commit
tee has been run over by a combined
majority four times already in the
voting on the bill.
The spirit of independence. once
aroused, seems to increase. and the
chairman of the committee never
knows what day will bring forth in
the new order of things created by
The farmers bloc. The members of
that organization take great delight
in carrying their point, and demo-
Gratis and republicans alike are deaf
to the entreaties of their leaders once
the farmers bloc starts on the ram
rage with the committee rates in the
bill.
And what a shout of glee they set
I'D when the nomination of Col Brook
hart, republican. for the senatorship in
Iowa was announced. His election is