San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-11
Jew CONGRESS
IS GOING 7 D
| Be A TARTAR
adicals Getting All
| Steamed Up in Prep
aratiOn. -.
| TEST FOR HARDING
10 Wonder President Not
|sza to Call Special as
Session. .sa
TEST FOR HARDING
Rv ROBERT r. SMALL

Washington, ID. c.. March 10.-lt
all very we'll for the country to be
ngratulating itself upon having sur
wed the last session of Congress
~solitical prognosticators here in
Washington already are hosting
brm signals for the session that is
begin next December. They say
at the rampages Of the next session
Il make the Congress just now dead
Id buried seem like spring zephyr
bngside a West Indian hurricane.
Even this early the radicals" Of
e new Congress are mapping out
eir campaigns and if even a small
rcentage of their plans 60 through,
ley will write the Sixty-eighth Con-
less into history as "wild eyed" The
dicals are chatting at the delay they
lust endure between now and next
ecember. They feel that having been
ected last November they should
We begun to function on January
Of this year, instead of waiting
&irteen long months to begin a pa
|pnth term. So one of the first fights
the new Congress will be to change
lie present constitutional program
Iiich permits an entire lame duck"
Ission to endure after a national
ection has been held.
After the Interests"
The Interests" are going TO catch
hip and thigh in the coming Con-
ess. Standard Oil, the beef
nst," the railroads. the water pow
trusts and virtually all the cor
brate interests that have nation
fde relations with the public, are TO
"probed" deep and long. The pub
generally pays for the cost of
ese probes in the end, but that his
ric fact is not to stand in the way
the most sweeping congressional in
Estigation program the country has
Ter seen.
Many of the senator's and represen-
Stiyes elected last November are
ming TO Washington with new the
les of government and by trading
ctics among the "blocs" that will in
st both houses, they hope TO try
eir ideas and experiments upon the
hsuspecting public.
- Last Congress Harmless.
The new Congress will submit
resident Harding to his real ordeal
fire. 1t has been said of the
cent Congress that it was headless,
iftless and leaderless. 1t might also
} added that it was more or less
irmless. The President was content
let Congress go its own way. IL
lied to do many of the things lie
bought it should have done. but it's
ms being those of omission rather
an commission. Mr.. Harding found
} occasion TO make extensive use of
power of veto. 1t may be en-
rely different with the new Con-
ess. The radical groups that are
pming into the new session hold
ews radically different from those
the chief executive and there aare
und to be serious cblashes between
lem.
The new session is bound to have
decided effect upon the political
ture of Mr.. Harding. Its activi-
es are likely to still be in progress
hen the presidential campaign Of
PA gets under way, and the man
pr in which the President handles
mself with the obstreperous Con-
less may well decide his fate as an
|spirant for denomination or as a
indicate for reelection. There is no
lestion but that some of the So
lied Republicans of the new Con-
Tess are openly antagonistic to the
resident and will stop at nothing to
put him in hole"
Many Breakers Ahead.
There is also no question but that
$e administration will encounter con-
|derable difficulty in. attempting TO
rry through a fixed legislative pro-
ain at the coming session. The Re-
|itlican majorities in both Senate
bid House have dwindled almost TO
be vanishing point and really throw
be balance of power into the hands
the more radical elements. The
bnditions will be such as to foster The
w$ idea TO a far greater extent
Ian was possible in the last session
here the administration steam roller
rnerally was powerful enough to flat
| n out some "bloc" ideas, especially
the House. There will be no
cam roller handy in the new Con-
ess and it will be a case of watch
bur step on all sides.
President Harding may have felt
bat C:n:ress imrUsed lot of bur-
eu, upon him in his frs. two years
4 office, but those burdens, from
resent indications will seem h.Lc, m.
PED, compared to the legislative
|'ct ses he will have to bear after the
F rss Monday of next December.
1t has been wi, said that nothing
."rt of public calamity would in
pc. the President t. call an extra
fhssion Of the new Congress. After
|iis Congress has been in session a
81 tn or two the public will know
hy Mr.. Harding reached sucn a &C.
s-nnnation.