The Washington times., 1924-08-30
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Congress Split Into 70 or 80
Units on Varied Policies,
Writer Forecasts
By WILLIAM HARD.


developed to the point Of having
many features Of great interest
particularly when contrasted witt
the outward show made by eacl
party to the voters.
In the Republican party thu
Congressional and Senatorial mu.
tineers against the President arr
now drawing his chariot quite
neekly for election purposes. Al
the Cleveland convention it was
prophesied by some observers that
the Congressman and Senators who
had opposed the President in the
matter Of the bonus and in the
matter of the Mellon tax plar
and in the matter Of Japanese i'm.
migration and in the matter Of
the pension bill and IN the matter
of the postal salary bill and in
the matter Of the World Court
and in other matters would lie
down in the traces during the cam
paign and would refuse to heir
pull the President to victory.
Many BlOcs in Sight.
This prophesy is being only slen.
Derby fulfilled. The Senators and
Congressman in question have
naturally discovered that they need
the President as much as the Presi
dent needs them and that all good
men in the party must collaborate
in helping one another until No.
vember 4, Irrespective of what may
happen thereafter.
What will happen thereafter, IL
becomes clear, Is that in the next
Congress there viii be three sorts
Of Republicans.
First there will be Administration
Coolidge Republicans. These will
be more numerous than they were
last time. That is, they will be
more numerous If Mr.. Coolidge him.
self is elected. He then will have
the prestige of a Presidential vic
tory won by his own personality
even more than by party exertion,
and the number Of Coolidge Repub-
licans on Capitol Hill will thereupon
increase perhaps quite consider.
ably.
Radicals to Increase.
In the second place there will
be the progressive or radical pro-
labor Republicans, like Mr.. Brook
hart in the Senate and Mr.. Nelson
in the House, and those also seem
likely to become more numerous.
Strenuous campaigns on behalf Of
such Republicans are In various
places being made by labor or.
CARNATIONS and by farm organiza-
tons which are supporting La Fol.
lette and Wheeler for President and
Vice President, but which at the
same. time are going into the Re-
publican column in support of nu.
merous radical Republicans for
Senator and Congressman.
Finally, in addition to these two
types, there will be third type
OF Republican in the next Congress
who might be called Conservative
Independents"
An illustration Of this new tyne
10 to be seen in--for instance
among others-Congressman A. Piatt
Andrew, of the Sixth district of
Massachusetts,.
Fought Mellon Plans.
Mr.. Andrew incurred the hostility
Of the Administration by being for
the bonus and by getting into con.
troversies with Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon. Mr.. Andrew once
was a teacher of economies in
Harvard University and then editor
OF the publications Of the National
Monetary Commission arhl then
Director Of the Mint and then As.
sistant Secretary Of the Treasury:
and he served four and a half
years continuously in France in
the world war. first with the French
army and then with the American
army, enNng up as q colonel with
the French Croix de Guerre and
with the American DISTINGUISHED
Service Medal. He nevertheless, be.
cause Of his conflicts with the Ad.
ministration, get listed by the Ad.
ministration forces as a sort Of
demagogic insurgent
Mr.. Andrew, in truth, 10 not
In the La Toilette sense-an in
surgent at all. On the contrary, In
the La Toilette sense, he is a de.
plorable resctionary. The La Follette
forces call him an enemy of labor
and have entered him on their list
OF Republicans who must be de.
feated.
Preserved independence.
In other words, Mr.. Andrew,
though, a conservative, refused to
be guided by Mr.. Coolidge, and,
though at outs with Mr.. Coolidge,
he refused to be guided by Mr..
La Toilette.
Quite a few Republicans both
In the Senate and in the House Of
Representatives are In that posi-
ton. Some of them may be de.
feated. Most of Them are likely to
come back to Washington. They
will come back with no gratitude
In their hearts either to the Ad.
ministration, which has spread
,thorns in their paths. or to the
La Toilette Farmer.Labor group.
which has hurled brickhats at their
heads. They, will thereupon con-
stitute In effect a group of their
own, conservative but independent.
Thus in the Republican party
there will be what might be called
three blocs. Meanwhile, The La
Toilette bloc, having become A sort
Of party. will begin to have blocs
within itself.
II. for instance. tina Ia FnI,Att~