The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1922-11-09
HARDING FACES
SERIOUS REVOLT
IN NEXT CONGRESS
Forced Into Position Where
He Must Act Quickly
or Lose Control.
HIS FRIENDS DEFEATED.
May Not Call Session Next
March, Putting Off Fight
for Year.
HIS FRIENDS DEFEATED.
By David Lawrence.
Especial Correspondent Of The
Evenina WorId.l

"ASAiiANSLON' " NOV copy
right The American people voted
into power on Tuesday a new Con-
gress, but 1t may be December OF next
year before the Senate and House will
be organized in accordance with the
wishes of the electorate.
Unless President Harding calls a
special session when the present
Congress goes out Of office on March
l next, the country will have to wait
until December. 1928, to SEQ In action
the Congress elected this week, and
the chances are that tho Presidential
primary campaigns OF 1924 will be in
full swing before the new Senate and
House get down to work. In fact, the
two national conventions in June,
1924, will be hold after only one ses-
sion of the new Congress in which the
majority and minority parties can
make their respective records.
Mr.. Harding has called a special
session for Nov. 20 of this year,
but that is merely TO speed up the
present Congress and give 1t an op-
portunlty to dispose OF ship subsidy
and other important legislation before
the regular session begins in Decem-
her, which runs by law only until
March 4. This short session will not
AFFORD much opportunity for anything
else but routine appropriation bills,
and the big Republican majorittes
which were swept into office in 1920
will control both Houses until
March 4.
The President may find himself
compelled by the pressure OF public
opinion to summon the new Congress
within a month or 80 after March 4,
1928. Woodrow Wilson lost both the
Senate and House in the autumn of
1918 and need not have brought Con-
gress here until Dec. 1919, but he
called a special session shortly after
the Democrats rclinquishel their con-
troll on March I, 1919.
The biz question for the politicians
to decide Is whether 1t will be better
for President Harding and the Repub-
lican party to postpone the beginning
OF the new Congress until the regular
session in December, 1923, or to enter
the fray sooner. with the narrow
majority in Senate and House, Mr..
Harding will be face to face with tho
task Of driving Congress his way or
being driven in every direction by the
Legislative branch OF tho Government.
He will not be able TO count on as
much help as heretofore because the
bloc" system of government will be
in full swing.
The Republican losses in Congress
have been vital. Conservatives have
been defeated, and II Democrats have
not taken their places, radical Re-
publcans, which Is to some extent
even more disturbing, have triumphed
and will be thorn in the side OF any
leader who attempts reconciliation or
harmonious party organization.
The possibility that Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge will resign the Republt
can leadership is being widely dis
cussed here. Mr.. Lodges health re-
Gently has not been good, and tho
truth is it will take "a younger and
more vigorous personality to deal
with the rebellions in the Republican
Party which are bound TO come out
of the Western membership. Even
Senator Underwood, the Democratic
leader, wishes TO resign the minority
leadership because he is unequal g.
the strain physically.
With the elimination OK Rcprescn
tative Mondell, Republican leader OF
the House, 1t looks as II Representa-
two Nicholas Longwofth of Ohio
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