Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-11-14
HARDING PLANS'FAcE
DEFEAT IN new SENATE
Upper House Will Block Ad-
ministration Program
IA Completely.

Baltimore Sun.
Washington, Nov. ia Senate
blockade threatens any legislative pro-
gram the Administration Of President
Harding may have to offer the newly
elected Congress.
There Is growing evidence that the
converting of special session OF the
old Congress next Monday and the
time that the outgoing Congress will
have between November 90 and March
4, when 1t expires, will not be sufficient
to prevent special session OF the new
Congress after March a.
This would bring the President i'm
mediately face to face with the COM
plexities of the new political align
ments in Congress created by the re-
cent countrywide elections.
Analysis Of roll calls Of the Senate
Of the Sixty-seventh Congress dis
closes that defeat would have been
the fate of some of the most import
ant legislation enacted had the MEM
bership been that of the next Senate.
Conversely, this is a revelation OF
the extent to which the new Senate
will be able to block the administra-
II.
Congress may be as barren of results
a. though the majority of one of the
houses actually had been taken away
from the Republican party.
The new Senate may not be able to
dictate revisions or repeal of legisla-
ton, because the House could not be
counted upon in all probability to pur-
sue such course.
That the newly enlarged radical
group in the Senate will try revision
OF many measures, however. is likely
and the corresponding group in the
House has been enlarged to a threat
ening extent from the administration
viewpoint.
The one thing the new Senate will
be able to do If it wishes IS to unseat
Senator Truman II. Newberry, of
Michigan. Proposals TO that end UNI
questionably will be made If Senator
Newberry changes his mind and re-
mains member. But the opinion is
general here that by next March l
Senator. Newberry will have resigned
Consideration OF some of the roll
calls of the old Senate discloses:
/. That composed as it is following
last weeks elections, the Senate would
vote to unseat Newberry.
.. That had the old Senate been Of
the complexion of the incoming 1,
would have refused to adopt the con-
ference report which enacted the new
Tariff law.
3. That the Revenue Revision act OF
the Administration would have been
passed by n very slim margin, II al
all had the new Senate been on the
job.
Senator Newberry was seated Janu-
airy -. 1922. The vote was As to a
in his favor, with nine Senators not
voting. Taking into account the known
positions of the absentees. the division
in the full Senate was 81 to IS fol-
Newberry.
Considering the Democrats and pro-
gressive Republicans who will succeed
regulars who voted for Newberry
there is a net change Of at least eigh
votes against Newberry, shifting tn,
majority to SO to 4S against him
Even if the successors to Gilbert NJ
Hitchcock, in Nebraska, and Atle'
Pomerene, in Ohio, the two defeated
Democratic Senators should vote FOL
Newberry.
The conference report on the tariff
measure was adopted September l9
1922, by a vote of 4S for TO rs agains
and % not voting. Taking into &c
count the known positions of the alb
sentees, the division of the full Sen
ate was 81 for the bill. SO against.
The elections last week sent 10 Sen
ators from the Senate who voted 70
the bill and brought in 10 who woul'
have opposed il. This net change o
10 votes indicates the division of tn
new Senate would be AZ against tn
Tariff act and AZ for it.
1t is entirely possible that some on
like La Toilette, when the new Senat
meets, will try TO modify the Tarii
law, as the Progressives did in 1917
Taft vetoed that attempt and It is {
be assumed President Harding woul
take similar action should such
modification be passed.
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