Evening star., 1924-06-07
FORM OF DISCIPLINE
FOR LODGE is PROBLEM
Senator, Big Figure Always in
Nominating Sessions, Due for
Severe Chastisement.
MAY GET BUT MINOR POST
Failure to Support President
Arouses Bay State Wrath.

BY stan Correspondent
CLEVELAND, Ohio. June TO
what extent the Massachusetts dele
cation will seek to discipline Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge in the coming ma
tional convention because of his fail
ure to back up President Coolidge on
several issues that came before the
Senate recently is a question in which
not a little interest is being mani
tested here.
The status of the senior senator
from Massachusetts, in this conven-
ton, dominated absolutely by the
friends of President Coolidge, has as
surned perhaps an undue Importance.
At present there is little more than
speculation in regard to it,
One thing is certain, however. SEN
ator Lodge will not occupy a place
similar in Importance to those which
ne has filled in every Republican con-
vention since 1900, with the excep-
tion of the convention of 1912, which
he did not attend. His exact status
is yet undetermined in this conven-
ton apropos the convention places.
To be Ignored Is Intimated.
The intination that Senator Lodge
is to be ignored by his associates in
the Massachusetts delegation, or at
least recognized only by appointment
to a minor place, has caused not
little general comment. There has
been some adverse criticism on the
part of those with whom Senator
Lodge has been associated in the
councils of the Republican party for
a quarter of century or more.
Another angle of the Lodge situa-
tion which is causing discussion is,
what will be the effect upon his stat
us as a Republican leader of the Sem
ate in the event he is practically ig-
nored at the national convention of
the party? His leadership of the Re-
publicans in the Senate has been un-
der fire in some quarters, and at the
there was talk of selection of "as-
sistants' who would do the major
part of the work usually assigned to
the party leader. Senator Wadsworth
of New York, and Senator Lenroot of
Wisconsin were among those men
toned for such positions, but moth
ing came of it at the time.
To Be Denied Usual HOnOrS.
With the single exception of the
1912 convention, Senator Lodge has
ton or chairman of the important
committee on resolutions which
frames the platform, since 1900. No
such honor is to be bestowed upon
him this year, if the reports that have
filtered into Washington and have
been brought to Cleveland are to be
credited.
notable instances to go along with"
the President, the most important
matter in which he refused to sup
port the President was the soldiers
bonus. He voted to override the
Presidential veto of the bonus bill,
and undoubtedly some of the other
by the attitude of the party leader.
He was also in opposition to the
President on the Bursum pension
bill, the immigration bill with the
Japanese exclusion clause and the
world court.
AS soon as the bonus vote was an
nounced, a drive in Massachusetts
against Senator Lodge was begun,
and this criticism of the senior sena-
tor, it is said, is responsible Tor the
PROPOSALS that he be relegated to a
back seat in the convention.
Senator Lodge may have friends In
the Massachusetts, delegation who
will make a fight in his behalf. 1t is
doubtful, however, if the senator MIN
self will encourage any such effort
should the delegation fail to recog-
nize him in making its convention ap-
pointments.