San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-04-15
PRESIDENT To
ASK CONGRESS
/ TO REDUCE TAX
Harding Expected to See
Changes in Income
Revenue Laws.
F
PLANS REVISION BOARD
Taxes Will Be Main Theme
Of Next Congress
Deliberations.
PLANS REVISION BOARD
BY ROBERT T. SMALL

ueHL IIdlulh6 . pOihtiNoi NANNN-'
which were impatiently awaiting his
return from the Florida vacation, LOST
no time in leaping full upon him.
1t was not until he got back to the
White House, once more to take up
the burdens of his office, that Mr..
Harding realized the political position
into which he had been maneuvered
by q combination Of circumstances
over which he at least feels he had
no control.
In Florida the President smiled
complacently when he read the inter-
view given out by Attorney General
Daugherty virtually placing him in the
field as an aspirant for second nomi-
nation and a second term.
But here in Washington, the Presi-
dents hot resentment OF the COM
ments made upon the Daugherty an
nouncements and the differences drawn
from it, has flared forth on more than
one occasion.
The President has found that only
with little more than one-half of his
term gone, political deluge has brok-
en- about him and that strive as he
may to do his full duty as President
of all the people, already he is being
Judged in the light of politician seek
ing further tenure of the high office
he holds. 1t is certain that Attorney
General Daugherty did not reckon the
full force and effect Of all that he
said that beautiful Saturday after
noon among the palm trees Of Miami
Beach.
He thought merely to squelch few
little presidential boomlets that were
springing up here and there and
threatening to become troublesome in
time. He did not realize the extent
to which he was robbing Mr.. Hard
: ing of his presidential seclusion and
! projecting him once more full upon the
screen of national politics.
~ Harding Realizes Now.
= Mr.. Harding today, however. real.
ICES the latter phase to the full aud
he frankly has stated that if he is to
be regarded as playing politics in al
that he may say or do during the next
year. he will stay strictly at home in
the White House, say as little as pos
sible and slight it out with Laddie
Boy"
The President hopes that frankness
and a demonstration of his determine
ton not to play politics at this time
in any of his official acts or views,
may ameliorate the position in which
he finds himself. He is like a SWIM
mer breasting an adverse. current,
fighting the ebb tide when he expect
> ed the flood.
Deeply as he resents the attempt
to strip him of his presidential robes
and stand him forth nakedly as a
candidate for reelection. Mr.. Hard
ing has discovered in the last As hours
that this is. by no means the fullneSs
of his political cup. He has found
that his advocacy of Americas en-
trance into the international court or
ganized by the league of nations has
touched the we'll spring of added op-
position within his party and whereas
few weeks ago he could count as
antagonists only those progressives. or
radicals. if you will, who felt that Mr..
Harding was perhaps too much of the
stand-pat type, he is being opposed to-
day by elements of the party upon
which he has had to count for his sup
port in the pest.
The seriousness Of the situation
which confronts the President is recog-
nized BY even his closest friends and
advisers. Having advocated the world
court. having approved the plans Of
Secretaries Hughes and Hoover 20
make a speaking campaign to arouse
sentiment in favor Of the plan. the
President cannot now shelve the Is
sue.
Yet he faces the probability that the
! greatest part of the next session of the
leH<Egress will he devoted to a bitter
nishfSs{. in which the Presidents first
tel. w Hooking idea in a proper for
in Nj policy for this country. will he
tagfsmorously assailed by members OF his
sio4n marty and warmly supported by
be V Democrats
hoot Now Oppose Harding.
pei}The same senator's who stirred the
eneStion 70 n revolt against the Leaguc
vi Nations nre getting into action
Ssdainst the Harding world court plan
ard there no longer Is any doubt Of
the havoc they can wreak once they
sre in full cry with a skill" just
ahead.
The opposing senators--all the for
mer members of the "battalion of
death" with a number of hale end
hearty recruits will make the welkin
ring an through the coming summer
and fall so that they will be in per.
feet tune when the congress assemblies
in December.
1t is certainty that the fight upon
the Harding plan. carried on in his
own party. will be prolonged so as 10
run through the primary periods 1T
next spring, IL not even to the very
eve Of the national convention itself.
The effect of this sort of fight upon
the Presidents chances for re-nomina-
ton and reelection can easily be con-
jectured. Instead of a harmonious
party, standing together TO face the
common enemy. there is very indica-
ton TODAY that the ranks OF the g.
o. p. will be stirred with internecine
warfare.
This is not partisan view of the
bullock. 1t IL the view of the Repuhli-
can leaders themselves and they are
at their wits end for way out OF the
strife and struggle which seems to De
Just ahead. 81
When senators Of the school of Jim
4 Watson. OF Indiana, who is every
urbera. known TO be Gas regular as
n MN. when IL comes to party affairs.
warns the President that there are
breakers In the near offing. Repab
icanism in general begins TO sit up
and take notice.