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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOClATlON
LaFOLLETTE BLOC PLANS CON-
troll OF NEXT CONGRESS.
Especial Correspondence.)

T. b0IOT6 Ju0 rt0puulACduS Cs1u Va
ganize either the House or the SEN
ate in the Sixty-eighth Congress, it
is evident that the reactionary
leaders will have to do BUSINESS with
Senator Robert M. LaFollette of
Wisconsin, whose followers in both
Houses hold the balance of control
Senator LaFollette's lieutenant in
the House, John M Nelson (Rep.
Wis. has succeeded in organizing a
bloc of sixty progressives or radicals,
whichever one may choose to call
them, and the work of organizing a
fSenate bloc of the same character is
now in progress.
| Representative Nelson's comments
on his plan for the organization of
the next House are entertaining and
enlightening. .'It, is not our pur-
pose to disrupt the party, but we do
intend to put progressive ideas to
the front. The balance of
power in the two Houses of Congress
is in the hands of progressives.
| Mr.. Nelson then explains how he
expects to put progressive ideas to
the front, despite the large majority
of reactionaries in the. Republican
membership of the House. 1--WE are
not opposed to the President" he
says. eve believe that he will agree
to our program" There you have
I it plain. They will not be opposed
| to the President because they believe
that the President will agree to their
program. Mr.. Nelson, it is needless
to say, is an optimist as we'll as a
progressive. What his bloc will do
if the President does not agree to it's
program he does not say, but the
records of the last Congress warrant
the assumption that there will be
opposition to the Presidents poll
/ cies, with more or less disruption in
the party.
Squabbles among Republican poll
ticians who control Federal patron
age are delaying the appointment OF
Federal judges authorized nearly 9
year ago on the representation that
they were needed to clear the dock.
4 cts of thousands of cases waiting
trial. Ten or twelve of the "a adj
ditional judges whose appointment
was provided for remain to be Sc
lected and confirmed by the Senate
4 Senator Harrison referred in the
i Senate to rumors that have beer
current regarding the political bar
gaining and pickering alleged to
have been involved in the making Of
these judicial appointments. Sena
tor Harrison said he had heard each
place was promised to several differ
ent men before the last COMPRESSION.
al elections, but that no action had
\ been taken by the administration
even yet in some of the cases.
Il Farmers have to pay a minimum
of $426,000,000 year as consumers
for an annual gain of only $685.
I 100000 as producers under the
Fordney- McCumber profiteers' tar
iff law, according to an. expert an
i alysis of the incidence of the new
4 duties made by the department OF
research of the American Farm Blu
rean Federation. This revelation OF
the true effect of Republican PRO
lection" on American agriculture
confutes and confounds the claims
of the Republican authors and de-
tenders of the new tariff.
1 The report of the Bureaus de.
partment of research says that the
farmers share in the cost of the
tariff on all products is about 25 per
cent of the total, or $426,O00, 900.
Costs to farmers as producers
amount to $125, 100000 The diff
ference between the gross cost to the
farmers of the country and their
gains is 1901 900, 900, which is an
underestimate rather than an over
statement of the burden, heaped on
agricultural producers by the tariff.
Much of the blame for the recent
rise in the cost of sugar is attributed
to Secretary Hoover and the Depart
ment of Commerce by Claus Spreck-
les. chairman of the board of the
Federal Refining Company. The
sudden increase in the price of sugar
from about 6 cents to 10 cents a
pound was due to gamblers mar
ket, assisted by the Department of
Commerce, says Mr.. Spreckles.
American consumers have been
gouged of from 5000, 100000 to
$500, 100000 by the stockholders
and profiteers who were responsible,
along with the Department of Com
merce, for adding within a few
weeks more than $50 per cent to the