The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-12-07
MORE BL0CS IN
NEXT CONGRESS
FARM GROUP, 1T is SAID, WILL BE
EXPANDED TO INCLUDE SEW.
ERAL OTHERS.
COMPROMISES WILL RESULT
Liberals in Next Senate May Be Under
Dual Leadership of Capper and
la olIette-TaIk Of Soldiers Bonus
Bill.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK

BY EDWARD 3. CLARK
Wushington.- Washington is speCu-
Ialing today about what is to happen
in a legislative way after the recently
elected congress shall come into its
own. The country has heard much
about the farm bloc in the present CON
gress. Now it Is said that other
blocs will be added to strengthen the
farm bloc and that farm" as an ad-
jective will be lost to usage in this
connection.
Men who have analysed the election
returns say that many representatives
and some senators who have been
elected are sympathetic with a move
ment for a combination which Shall in
clude the guardianship Of the specific
interests Of the farmer, the laborer
the small merchant, and what they
call the middle class worker, although
no one knows exactly what is meant
Try This phrasing Of description unless
it means the clerk class generally.
The more or less conservative Re
publicans in the next house and senate
probably will have a majority of the
Republican membership, but it should
be remembered that when the word
membership" is written it means that
membership which became a part OF
the majority party in congress under
the name Of Republican, but whose
makeup does not necessarily mean
that all Of its individuals are Repub-
licans TO the extent of being willing to
support any considerable number of
Republican policies which have been
indorsed by the administration.
Conservatives May Have to Yield.
1t has been held by many of the
leaders and by many writer's on the
subject that with small party ma
jority in the house of representatives
It is easier to keep the individuals in
line for party policies. But now ad-
mittedly 1t seems that there must be
some change in the viewpoint The
representation of the various so-called
blocs in the next congress will be
large. 1t is said here that If the old
line Republicans as they are called,
succeed in putting through the legis-
lation which they desire, they can do
ii only after yielding much to the de-
mands Of those who are not altogether
in sympathy with the conservatism
which generally has marked the course
of Republicanism.
In the next senate, as in the next
house. there will be a leader for the
new thought which has come, appar-
entity to be q power in the Republican
ranks. Senator Capper of Kansas
has been recognized as the leader Of
the farming interests in the upper
house. If the farm bloc, so-called, is
enlarged to include other blOcs under
name descriptive enough to include
everything which comes under It's
head, it is possible, of course, that
the leadership may be changed and
given to some senator who has served
longer in the upper house than has
Mr.. Capper, but this is only advance
speculation.
Washington seems to be convinced,
although admittedly the threads of
opinion thus far have been little
difficult TO pick up, that there will be
sort of a dual leadership Of the new
and now powerful school of thought
in the senate, a leadership that is to
fall in equal parts to Mr.. Capper OF
Kansas and to Mr., La Toilette of Wis
consin.