The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-05-05
FEEL CALL.
Of HOME
| FIELDS
Ind of Alliance With Demo-
Gratis Seen As ResuIt-To
Follow Own Ideas
By WILLIAM HARD.


The end of this spectacular
session of Congress is suddenly
in sight. The leadership of the
insurgent wing of the Republi-
can party in the House of Rep
resentatives today has Joined the
leadership of the regular wing in
being willing to adjourn Congress
before the meeting of the Re-
publican National Convention or
June 10.
The insurgent and the regular
Republicans together in the
House are numerous enough to
commit the House to adjourn
ment.
Much Speculation Caused.
Various members of the Senate
might wish to continue to talk, but
with the House ready to adjourn
and declaring itself ready to adj
journ, continuance of sessions by
the Senate becomes politically diff
1icult.
Just why the insurgent Repub.
licans are willing to join the regu-
lar Republicans in choking off any
possible protracted attack upon the
President and upon the White
House policies during a heated and
heating summer became a matter
today Of intense speculation. That
the insurgent leadership is indeed
willing to join the regular leader.
ship in this matter is beyond con.
tradiction.
It was not only admitted by in.
Surgent leaders today, but openly
and emphatically asserted. They
profess to be able to see no reason
why Congress should remain in ex-
1gtence puch longer. They say
that they would rather spend the
summer talking to the voters.
In way this means the end of
the alliance which was made be-
tween the Democrats and the in
9urgent Republicans at the begin
ming of this Congress, and which
resulted in the famous recent re.
wishing and broadening of the House
rules.
The truth is thought to be that
the Democrats on the whole have
been too moderate and too middle
battle-ground to be entirely con-
genial or serviceable to the insur-
gent Republicans. a
Division Into Blocks.
On the whole the regular Re-
tYublicans have represented the
right" the Democrats the Cen
ter" and the insurgent Republicans
the cleft"
This tendency has shown itself
not only at the national Capital but
also back home in certain States.
In Illinois, for instance, the State
platform of the Republican party
is an ''insurgent" platform, leaning
toward the La Toilette model; and
the Democratic State platform, by
comparison, is conservative docu-
ment.
In Iowa, similarly, and in Ne.
braska, and in South Dakota, and
in North Dakota, as well as in Wis
consin, the northwestern Republi-
can insurgents have produced
United States Senators who are
more progressive" or forward
looking or radical" or whatever
1t may be called, than their immedi-
ate local Democratic competitors.
Many Democrats in the House
voted against the anti-child-labor
proposed constitutional amendment.
Many Democrats took a position
against some of the more advanced
or extreme taxation ideas of certain
Of the insurgent Republicans.
Today, when the Barley bill, for
n new and more progressive" sort
of Railroad Labor Board, comes UP
before the House, the insurgent Re-
publicans will be found to be vir.
tually unanimous for it but there
will be defections away from it out
OF the Democratic ranks.
The vote on it accordingly is ex-
pected to be extremely close, al
though certain number of regular
Republicans will vote for it.
Demanded By Unions.
If the alliance between the Demo.
Gratis and the insurgent Republicans
were solidly based on a common
acceptance of insurgent principles.
the Barley bill, which is supported
and demanded by the railroad trade
unions, would be bound to go
through, even IL no regular Repub-
licans at all were found voting
for it.
Today's situation regarding the
Barkley bin is accordingly an apt