The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-08
COOLIDGE To Be
OPPOSED IN
SENATE
President Has Far From Ma
iority Behind Him on Major
Issues, Says Hard
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elected to a seat in the House OF
Representatives but who is elected
to a seat in the Senate.
! That is the thing that ultimately
makes the most difference.
The President executes the laws
and does not make new ones and
in modern conditions, with the Civil
Service Law interrupting the use OF
patronage, and with direct primary
laws giving new independence
from party control to legislators on
Capitol HUI, the Presidents influ
ence over new legislation is increas,
ingly restricted.
Senate Uncontrolled
The House of Representatives,
with even a slender majority for
q dominant party, can by means
of its machine rules give that
dominant party a sort of automatic
right-of-way toward what 1t wants
to do.
The Senate remains-and, in fact,
increasingly becomes-a body of in
dividuals uncontrolled by party and
uncontrolled by the President.
what the individuals in It accord
tngly decide to do becomes the uui.
mately grand puzzle and the ulti.
/ mately deciding factor n American
public life.
Body Of IndividuaIists.
With that thought ami that fact
in mind, Washington now examines
the virtually completed returns in
the Senatorial elections and il
bound to conclude chat the Senate
not only for two years to come but
probably for four years to come is
going to be an independent and in
calculable body which neither the
republican party national organiza
ton nor the Coolidge White House
WilI be able to dominate.
Nor will the Democratic party be
able to dominate it.
1t is going to be body decisively
OF individualists; because it is going
to have in 1t a sufficient margin
OF individualists to defy all party
calculations and all bloc caicula.
lions and all other sorts Of calcu.
lations.
1t is not going to be, in its ulti.
mate decis.&as, a body Of party or
OF bloc. 1t is going to be a body.
In Its ultimate decisions, Of peculiar
individual human beings.
That is the thing about It which
does not seem to be appreciated.
but which is true.
Fifty.five G. q. p. in Senate.
Let us take, for instance, the
common stock calculations OF SO
many Republicans and so MANY
Democrats in the new Senate.
The Republicans, because OF gains
in Massachusetts, and in Kentucky
and in Oklahoma and in Colorado
and in Minnesota may have in the
next Senate fifty-five members,
/ The Democrats, because of losses
may nave In the next Senate only
forty members.
The Farmer.Laborites, because OF
the defeat Of Magnus johnson In
Minnesota, will be reduced to one
| member-Henrik Shipstead.
These calculations give the Repub
ilcans everything they can possibly
have.
Then let US look at their situation
They have fifty-five votes in the
Senate out Of ninety-six. 1t looks
| very satisfactory.
Let us proceed, however, to make
the necessary deductions for certain
possible emergencies.
In the first place there are five
outrightly La Toilette Republican
Senators.
They are: La Toilette Of Wiscon
sin, Brookhsrt Of Iowa, Norris OF
Nebraska, Ladd of North Dakota
and Frazier of North Dakota.
This reduces the Republican votes
In the Senate from fifty.five to
fifty.
Nine Others "BalI1y."
Then come the Senator'S, Repub'
lican in name and usually Repub.
lican in principle, who nevertheless
are on certain measures totally out
of sympathy with the White House
and probably totally uncomfortable
by the White House.
They include the following: Cou
zens Of Michigan, Capper Of Kansas
Harreld of Oklahoma, Howell of Ne
braska, Norbeck of South Dakota.
McMaster of South Dakota, Borall
Of Idaho, McNary Of Oregon John
son Of California.
They number nine.
Deduct nine from fifty and the
result is forty-one.
That result will appear on virtu
ally every proposition, for instance
for reducing the present top sur
taxes on the very rich.
The President wants them re-
duced. When he tries to reduce