The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-20
COOLIDGE CONF FRS ON PARTY UNREST WITH SEN. B0RAH
President Wants To Know Just What Is Wrong With
 Western Group
By RAYMOND CHAPTER


 WASHINGTON, Sept 19.-Keenly alive to the dangers lurking in the comtrA Congress, honeycombed as it Is with insurgents, President Cool idge took time by the forelock and ih- vited Senator Borah, bell-wether of the republican progressives, to a dinner conference at the White House in order to learn first hand just what was at the bottom of the discomfort among so many elements in the party
 This is the first time Coolidge has invited a political leader to the White House board to talk with him in heart to heart fashion, confidentially, frankly, and without the sugar coat ing that goes with more formal con- ferenees at the executive offices.
 Borah has Just come back from two months in the west where the un- rest is most active. He has talked with hundreds of voters of all poli- tical complexions. He has been es pecially attentive to the agricultural problem which is rapidly becoming a political nightmare to the administra- tion The tWo-hour cabinet meeting Tuesday was devoted entirely to dis cussion of remedies. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is preparing
  merce Hoover consulted. with the President Wednesday, suggesting lower freight rates on agricultural products as possible remedy. Northwestern packers are coming soon to urge revival of the United States Grain corporation. Each day that the present condition of the wheat growers continues means ad- ditional damage to the administration and additional fuel for the insurgents in the next Congress. Coolidge hopes to gather some useful ideas from Borah that will head off trouble. Coolidge Mnde Delft Move.
 The President made a delft move by inviting Senator Borah to the White House board. Not since the days of Taft has Borah been a welcome White House visitor. He was there rarely when Harding was the oc- cupant. Borah was respected, and feared. But he was left on the out side bound by obligations, uncon- suited Naturally. he turned into free lance. rowing everywhere and throwing the best laid plans of the party leaders Askew time and again.
 Coolidge is taking more astute course. Instead of leaving Borah out beyond the pale with nothing to do but throw rocks, the two-gun pride of the west is politely invited to take off his side arms, slick down his long hair. squeeze into his soup and fish and drive up to the White House and advise with the President of the United States. Whether Borah is to and allow hard boiler shirt to oramp his style. remains to be seen. What interested political Washington was the quick, quiet move of the President, to take the ring leader of the opposition into camp. For all or his meek and quiet ways, Washing ton begins to wonder at the canny, cess mind of Coolidge.
 The mysterious arrival and depar- ture of Judge William s. Kenyon of Iowa started many rumors in the capital Wednesday. The former Iowa senator, already mentioned as the favorite of many progressiVes for the republican presidential nomination. talked with Senator Borah Wednes- day, but declined to say anything for publication. He is keeping clear of politics, but he has active friends who declare he is the most available of all the progressives. He was a leader in progressive legislation in the sem ate, but was never violently radical Therefore he would appeal to both wings of the party It is unlikely that he will permit his name to be entered in the primaries, unless there is prospect that the convention is to be d WlQS OpGAl oAAdli'
 WASHINGTON. sept. 19,-President Coolidge and his advisers will be energetically occupied for the next ten days in seeking a solution or the situation confronting agricultUre in the west, Senator Borah of Idaho said tonight. after an hours confer ence with the executive at the White House.
 Senator Borah said the question of calling an extra session of Congress to deal with the situation was dis cussed, but added that he was entire " in agreement with the President that i've ought to undertake to deter mine upon a remedy and define a program before an extra session Is called"
 If we cannot find remedy be- fore such session." the senator said, "we probably could not find one afterwards"
 Senator Borsh told the President he regarded the whole agricultural situ- ation west of the Mississippi as seri- ous as any within his recollection or in his reading on the subject. He declared that not only the wheat growers, but producers of other crops were facing difficulties The trou- ble Is, he continued, that they are selling on a pre-war basis and buying on a war basis with the further necessity of paying many times the amount of taxes they did before the