Evening star., 1922-06-21
c. 0. ?. LEGISLATIVE
PLANS HARM0NZED
Congress Leaders Agree
With President to Put Tariff
Through at Once.

Things are looking up for the ad-
ministration. Much to the relief of
Congress and administration leaders.
the legislative program in the House
and Senate appears to be emerging
from the state of chaos in which it
was floundering up to this time and
to be taking more definite form. On
all the measures. excepting the SOL
diers' bonus BILL better teamwork be-
tween the legislative and executive
branches seems assured.
II cannot be said that there Is plain
sailing ahead for that measure. by
Senate have definitely pledged them
selves to pass the bill before this
session adjourns or a recess is taken.
But the question is, will the Congress
pass a bill which President Harding
will sign?
There is no change in the Presi
dents attitude. expressed in a letter
to Chairman Fordney of the ways
and means committee. toward the
class of legislation he will approve.
and none of the propositions now
cation. Chairman McCumber of the
Senate finance committee insists in
the belief that the President will
sign any bill sent to him.
But the Fordney letter is still on
file and the latest word from White
House sources is that 1t means just
what it says in plain English and
expresses the Presidents. meaning
and intent.
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The little furry over the ship sub
sidv bill has blown away like a sum-
mer squall at sea. The President has
expressed his willingness that the
House postpone action on that meas
ure until the tariff bill is out of the
way and especially until the members
of the House have had opportunity to
sound the sentiment in their districts
upon the proposition.
The contention OF members of the
House was this-that there was not
a Chinamans chance of the ship sub
sidy bill getting through the Senate
before the elections with the present
state of congestion. and that the
House men would simply be driven
up to a hazardous hurdle with no
good purpose to be accomplished.
They would have to take the jump
in the dark. it was contended. and
; were uncertain, in many cases. of
how the public in the mass feels
about the legislation.
President Harding is known to en-
tertain no doubt of the ultimate ap-
proval of the pending bill. once the
people thoroughly come to under
as highly beneficial to the best inter-
ests of the whole country. He has
more than once pointed out that it is
not an administration hobby. but a
nom partisan economic measure where
possibilities for good are incalculable.
Delay Believed Over.
1t is thought at the Capitol that
the tariff bill will move with greater
tory tactics will soon be abandoned
The Senate republicans have agreed
with the President that the tariff
bill. shall be passed at the earliest
practicable moment, and in face of
this harmony of purpose between the
White House and the Capitol. it is
believed that the Senate will get
bill to a vote.
The House is expected in a short
time to enter upon a session of three
day recesses. and this course, it is
suggested, will serve to further ac-
centuate public interest in the prog
ress of the bill through the Senate
and focus attention upon that body.
Ground for qualification by the ad-
ministration over the political out
look was established by the result of
Mondays primaries and by the an
nouncement of Samuel w. Mccall
that he would not be a candidate for
the senatorial nomination in Massa-
chuSettes against Senator Lodge.
While the denomination of Senator
Hale OF Maine and Kellogg of Mime
sofa was expected, the size of their
leads was pleasing.
Politicians at the Capitol say that
had they been defeated, such an out
come on top, of the situation in In
diana, Pennsylvania and Iowa would
have been very disconcerting.