The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-15
FRICTION. SEEN
 WITH COOLIDGE
Postal Salaries And Pos tai Raises Are KnOtty
 Problems
SHOALS QUESTION
 STILL UNSOLVED
Borah Committee On Campaign Expense May Start
 TrO,,hle
1T e,seil Wire To Age-Herald)


 WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-W!th sails set for quiet session, congress suddenly has run into stormy waters; It faces a number of controvefsla' problems which have split It Tn sev. eral ways, forecasting trouble "lenlt, :4h ;ts own ranks and friction, wltn President Coolidge, who had hopeu for no serious trouble with HIS "left-over" congress. ,nsm-
 Alter giving over Monday to mem or;a1 service for Woodrow Wilson, con grnss will wade into the melee, center ing around these problems ..u
 Muscle Shoals legislation, stlll f,o,rdarinp around in the senate after ten days of debate.
 3 The vetoed postal salaries increase hill. subject of bitter talk and some bargaining in senate cloakrooms' pie. naratory to it's reappearance on Ihe floor.
 Postal Raise Up
 proposed legislation to raise postal r.tes which will hit every newspaper and magazine as well as the general public, and is being used to prevent re- massage of the postal salaries Dill over the Presidents veto.
 4. The state of the navy, more coh- troversal subject than ever. .,,
 In addition, the Borah committee Will take I'D again it's investigation lnto campaign funds this week, examining certain telegrams discovered by Samue, Untermyer, New York, attorney anu counsel for La Toilette, alleged to nave been sent from a bank here to federal reserve banks in Kansas City, St, Louis, Minpeanolis and San Francisco, and 1n- yolving million dollars which It IS alleged was to be sent to aid the repub- lican campaign in the west. Fire works on the floor undoubtedly will result from a renewal of this investigation.
 Underwood Charges Up .,,
 The senate judiciary committee VIII meet Monday to inquire into charges that the Underwood bill for disposal of Muscle Shoals is designed to hand over the government plants to the Alabama Power company and subsidiary and linking corporations. The investigation was asked by Senator Underwood as result of a newspaper editorial.
 Recently, there has been evidence of growing opposition in the house to the Underwood oill. If that should be passed by the senate, there would be considerable difficulty in reaching a compromise before the end of the ses- sion.
 The situation around the postal sal aries increase bill has been muddled by the proposition to pay the increase through a measure raising postal rates. Advocates of salary raises for postal em- ployes say this movement is designed to raise up opposition, among news papers, magazines, and the people, to defeat the salary measure when the sen nte takes it up for action over the Presidents veto. Many administration senators are pledged to support the pay increase, which Coolidge opposes. Advocacy, on the other hand, of the bill increasing rates is bound to cause dissatisfaction among many constit uents who will be affected. A con fused situation has resulted.
 Many words are expected to be said :n the next few days about the navy. Despite the statement of . special sub committee of the house laval affairs committee that the treaty ratio is be- ing maintained. the special experts, so- called, still insist that it is not Secre- tnry of the Navy Wilbur will appear before the house committee next week to explain certain things, while Sen ator King of Utah will appear before the senate naval committee to urge a favorable report on his resolution ask ing sweeping investigation of the navy department from top to bottom.