The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-17

CHAOS ENDED
BY PRESIDENT
AS Result Of Conference Com
plete Understanding Exists
Between the Executive and
Law-Making Branches.
CLEANING UP WORK
PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU


WASHINGTON, Jan. 17-President
Harding's recent efforts to bring order
out Of considerably confused IegisIa-
tive situation have been marked with
considerable success. As a result oc
the conference he has been holding at
the Whlte House with majority lead
erS IN congress, satisfactory legisla-
tive working plan has been evolved
and complete understanding between
the executive and law-making
branches of the government now pre-
walls
There has never been any appre-
clable friction between the two since
the advent of the present administra-
ton. President Harding has consis-
tently refused to dictate to congress.
although he has been urged to do SO
frequently, even by some Republican
leaders in both the senate and the
house. He has been content, however.
to go no further in his dealings with
congress than to advise the majority
leaders as to his wishes concerning
legislative action and policies.
Since congress assembled in special
session last spring the house of rep
resentatives has kept well abreast OF
the legislative program. It's slate
could be cleaned within two months
time. 1t has been the senate which
has delayed the enactment of much
of the important legislation before COLI
gress, and the cause of the sluggard-
ly procedure of the senate can be
traced directly to its generally con-
demned rule of unlimited debate.
Knew Consequences.
There have been many who have
pleaded with President Harding, it is
said, to attempt to stir the senate out
of its snail-like progress with the "big
stick" But the fact that he sas stuck
to the business of being presi-
dent of the United States is attributed
to the fact that he knows from expert.
ence that those chief executives who
belabored the worlds most deliberate
body" never did much boasting over
the results they obtained.
The unlimited debate rule in the
senate is not new; it is as old as the
republic, and veteran legislators agree
that the senate will never be prompt
ly responsive to the Legislative de
mands of the country as long as it re-
tains a rule which makes thesminority
the master of the majority.
Rep. Mondell, Republican leader in
the house, recently predicted that
congress would be able to adjourn by
the first of June, but many of his col
leagues believe that he made this as
sertion without giving due considera-
tion to the senate's leisurely transac-
ton of it's affairs.
To Submit Treaties
1t is pointed out that within short
time the president will submit to the
senate several treaties which are the
outgrowth of the arms limitation con-
ference, and it is recalled that the SEN
ate discussed the peace treaty for over
one year, and then rejected it. 1t is
that while the house is now
beginning to pour into the senate the
various department appropriation bills,
all of which must be approved before
the beginning of the governments
next fiscal year, July 1. the upper
branch of congress will not be ready
to take up the tariff bill, passed by
the house last July, until some time
in March.
A bonus bill for former service men
will also be passed before the present
session of congress adjourns; that ap-
pears to be an accepted fact. And con-
gressmen, particularly the Republican
members, would like to have that bill
enacted before the spring primary
elections, but it is not regarded as
probable that the senate will act upon
it by that time.
Speeding Up Work
Despite the slow progress the SEN
ate has made since last April, the fact
that the presidents recent
with majority leaders in
congress to speed up" work on the
legislative program have been success
ful in this respect; since the white
house gatherings the senate has start
ed to work, whereas, prior to these
it had attempted practic-
ally no legislation since the beginning
of the regular session, the first of last
December, devoting nearly all that
time in discussing the Newberry case