The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-26
MUCH TRADING AT CAPITAL THIS WEEK
Regulars And Radicals In Old Party Will Try To Smooth
 Out Tangles

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-This is to te week of conferences, formal and informal, at the capitol for discus si,n of organization and leglslation in advance of the assembling of the SlXty-eighth Congress.
 Since there is no question of the ahiiity Of the repu blicans to organ ize both houses, interest in 9rganiza- tion matters "cnters on the lrader- skip fight on the majority side in the House and the selection Of rcpub- lican candidate for president pro tenn. of the Senate.
 pected to decide early this week whether he will ask reelection as president pro tenn or relinquish that job to retain the chairmanshiD of the interstate commerce commission. Shoul6 he give up the presidency, Senator Curtia of Kansas the repub- itcaH whip, may succeed to that place. GiIIett Speaker Again.
 Although Speaker Gillett may have some opposition at the republican House conference next Saturday, his reelection Is regarded generally as almost a certainty. The real contest among the majority is over the lead crsnip to which Longworth Of Ohio and Graham of Illinois aspire.
 The democrats in both the House and Senate will put full tickets In the field. Garrett of Tennessee will be the minority candidate for speaker, and upon the election of Gillett he aJ. | tomat!eally will become the minority leader Oldfield of Arkansas very probably will be returned as demo- cratic whip. Senate democrats are expected tc select Robinson of Ar kansas as their leader, and Putnam of Nevada as their candidate for pres ident pro tenn.
 While the leaders of the two major rartles are laying their final plans. 1 republican, progresslves and the in-
 dependents of tho House and Senate
 wiz continue their conferences. The
 progressive group in the House will go into the republican conference and launch there their fight for a liber- 1 alization of the House rules and more l representation on committees. Lead
 CTS of this grolp have stated thalr in-
 tention 10 support Cooper of Wiscon- | sn for speaker and thus bring about l delay in the organization of the 1 Ho3Se unless their demands are com
 piled with
 Republican, -progressives and the Minnesota farmer-labor senators are
 to resume their conferen ees early this week for discussion of ieGisla- tlOp ard klnQreQ matters, D1L the working out of a definite program nay await the return to the capitol of Senator LaFollette, republican, Wisconsin, who is i'll at his home here,
 Tax Reduction Chief Topic. While tax reduction will continue to be chief topic of discussion, par ticularly among senators and repre- sent tatiNes arriving this week, crys- talization of sentiment on this sub- icct is not expected until after the work of the new Congress gets under way. Railroad and coal legislation are alsC coming to the front in Capi- tol ta li but thus far there have been no concrete proposals likely to gain sufficient support to insure their translation into law.
 While hundreds of bills and reso- | lutions will be dumped into the hop per as usual during the early days of l the session, the first week will, see 1 little real work Accomplished. ] President Coolidge will present his | first annual message after the or ganiZation has been perfected. The House and Senate then will mark time until the committees shall have had time 10 present legislation for their consideration. This period of comparative inactivity is expected to see the launching of partisan politi- cal debates, which are certain to crop up frequently during the session as proach.