The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-04-20
BY EDWARD q. CLARK

BY EDWARD 3. CLARK
Washington.-Th senate Of the
United States is about TO occupy itself
with tariff legislation. The bill affect
ing the customs passed the house
long time ago and has been IN the
keeping of the senate committee on
finance. There is wide disagl cement
between the senate majority and the
house majority concerning the form
which part of the tariff legislation
should take on.
No one knows how long the tariff
fight will continue in the upper house,
for already the leaders are beginning
to hedge a little on their prophecy of
an early adjournment 1t always has
been this way. The records Of the
fifteen years just passed show that
early adjournment prophecies are
dangerous to the regulations of the
congressional prophets. August l is
now the day set by some of the leaders
as the earliest possible date for the
getting away. 1t may be that snow
will fly once more before the legisa-
tors find they can quit their law max
ing jobs.
1t is no secret that there is disagree
ment between the administration and
the majority party in congress, es-
pecially in the house, concerning
some of the legislative doings of the
representatives In the senate Re-
publican leaders are preparing TO fight
the house legislation which provides
for an army and navy personnel which
the house would have reduced to little
more than a corpOrals guard for each
service.
Disagree as to Army and Navy.
ut is said that the administration
is pinning its faith on the senate to
undo some of the so-called economic
doings Of the house. Some men 50 so
far as to say that the administration
believes that some of the legislation
to which tie representatives have
given their adherence actually threat
ems the safety Of the country. OF
course this feeling has to do with the
great cuts in the military and sea
forces which have been voted by the
house of representatives.
1t can be taken for granted that
General Pershing and General Har-
bord. the chief and the assistant chief
of staff, in their recent addresses on
the subject of army legislation, were
buttressed in their belief that for
speaking their minds they would
escape criticism ard possible attempts
to discipline them, because they feel
that the administration thinks as they
do on the subject of virtually legislat-
ing the army out of existence.
Apparently President Harding does
not believe that the country thoroughly
understands the army and navy situa-
ton. He does know, of course, as
congress knows, that the people are
willing that material reductions shall
be made, but he feels apparently that
they do not realize that, in the belief
Of the administration and Of other
officials Of government, the reductions
proposed by the house may endanger
the institutions of the country.
Men who watch things political say
that if there were no congressional
campaign coming on, such troubles as
there are between the administration
and the majority in congress would at
tract less attention. The Republicans
In the house naturally enough are
working for their reelection, and they
are attempting to meet what they be-
lieve to be the desires of the people,
even if these desires spring from a
mlsapprehension of the circumstances
attending the subject of national de-
tense.
Attitude of the President.
The same men say that the Presi-
dent, of course, desires that a Re
publican congress shall be reelected,
but that he also desires that the people
should know the real facts in the
legislative case, and should be led into
a willingness to vote for continued Re
publican control of congress, not
through misapprehension, but through
a knowledge of what the administra-
ton considers to be existing facts.
Report has it that President Har-
ding will make no political speeches
during the congressional campaign
Friends Of the administration say that
this determination has been made be-
hn
carry before the country any differ
ences which he may have with his
party in congress. In case Of disaster
at the polls he might be accused of
having inadvertently helped the Demo
Gratis.
The Democratic leaders are pleased
over the present situation. They say
the President does not care to stump
the country because he believes he
would be heckled on the results of the
international conference, and ON the
differences between him and the Re
publicans in congress on the subjects
of the bonus for former soldiers and
the great reductions proposed in the
personnel of the army and navy.
April for D. A. r. and Children.
April in Washington is the month
of the school children and of the
Daughters Of the American Rev
olution Grammar and high school pu-
ORIGINAL RIVALS"