The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-01
PRESIDENT FEARS RADICAL" GROUP IN EXTRA SESSION
ProgreSsives Determined to Force Houses into Special Meeting-- Harding Firm
 Iy Opposed to Idea
WASHINGTON BUREAU
 THE At Ell ERAID

Washington, D. C., Jan. oi
 Again the White House makes 1t plain that there will be no eAtraordi- nary session after March unless a major appropriation bill should be defeated
 Were the shipping program to fail, were it necessary to secure ap- proval of a plan for funding the Eu- ropean debt there would be no ne- cessity for an extraordinary session, according to the White House. It is not likely that an appropria- tion bill will SC under. Neverthe- less, the progressive" wing of the republican party declares it's convic- tion that an extraordinary session will De called before July 1.
 It is admitted that the progress ives" desire an eStraordinarv TRey want to try oe FAy7stef wi'g' m attee Nzre. pree Hta s. pestroae as ious as ta5 eH- ui ttH WHICH el.t-H
 chaotic when the reeabicaa spo- ne Tho admin ,-a4o 4on will be stt eANt - tnrCW Ine maciIiu- cry sHt gear whenever they se- lece.
 Democrats Oppose Session
 Democrats don't want an extraordi- nary session. They do not see need for it. Leaders do net believe that q n f.N+ +..,. dound 10 the advantage of the party. They feel that the time would be consumed in advertising of them selves by the radicals" for whatever effect it might have on the econ Vcntion campaigns of 1924.
 The ''prC gressives" base their pre- diction that Congress will be called into session during the summer on their belief that the country, with Congress idle, would rise up. politi- cally, against do-nothing policy. They contend that the people will have grievances and will state them to the President and hold him respon- sble if he refuses to make an at- tempt to aiI them.
 They talk broadly to the effect that a recapituiation of the achieve ments" Of the Harding administrations after March 4 will make it plain that the only legislation completed of national import was the Fordney- MeCumber tariff act, which the pro gressives" did not support. and which the "progressives" feel will be wide ly anathematized when it's full ef feet is exerted
 The "progressives" assert that without some record, Harding could not be nominated. any candidate of the party elected They declare all this makes them certain that Hard ing will act during the summer.
 Defends Williams
 senator J. Thomas I-eIlin ef Ala bama, who still conducts a campaign against the policies of tie Iederal re- serve board and continues his at lacks against former Governor W. r. c. lIafing of Alabama, has secured Information on which his campaign has been conducted from John Skel- ton Williams of Virginia
 In coIrse Of speech. Senator Hefiin said; Tho fight that have made m the Senate has been based to large extent upon the indis- putable facts given me from time to time by John SkeIton Williams. who knew tho truth and dared to tell t. He has been criticised and slandered just as I have.
 Williams was former comptroller of the currency. He was nominated for second term. bat his friends could not secure his confirmation. There was much enmity between Williams and Harding and that in course os a hearing by joint congressional com- mittee on agriculture, blows be- tween the two were narrowly avert ed.
 Attack Is Personal
 senator Heflin's attacks against Harding arc not only based on Hard ings record, but are personal. The AfaDa m senator makes the charge that the Alabama financier, who was not reappointed to a S12.OO0 position. was mace governor, Cf the federal reserve bank at Boston at a salary of s2o,G00, because "Wan Street wanted him taken care of"
 The Alabama Senator said that the deflation policy. initiated during the last year of Woodrow Wilson's term. was put into effect when the Presi- dent was unconscious a part of the sfme. He declared himself satisfied with D. R. Crissinger nominated by the Pr ssident to succeed Governor Harding. Crissinger is an ohio repub- lican.
 On the board as it will be con- stitutei, the democratic party and the south will have no repI esentation. As the Secretary of the Traasury. the real head of the boarc. approves the De licies of the board, i' IS regardea as certain that there viii be no dras- tic change in such policies.