The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-05-23
REPUBLICANS LOSE
CONTROL Of RE|NS
IN BOTH HOUSES
Insurgents Help Solid Demo
cratic Minority Put Over
Measures.
REAL WORK Is IN SIGHT
Coolidge Using Veto Pen In
Face Of Election-His Posi-
ten Uncomfortable.
REAL WORK IS IN SIGHT
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gress II buckling down to its job; II
breads the equatorial season In
washington and is showing signs OF
doing some real work In the days
before june hits US and is making
an effort to adjourn in time for both
national conventions.
In addition to passing appropria.
ton bills both houses of Congress
have disposed of the pension bill, the
bonus bill and the immigration bill.
The President promptly vetoed the
pension bill and It's author. Senator
Bursum, is counting noses to zee
whether he can get his bill passed
over the veto. The commander-in-
chief Of the G. A. r. has declared
the Presidents veto is both cruel
and unjust to the old soldiers of the
country.
1t is likewise believed that Presi-
dent Coolidge will veto the soldiers
bonus bill. His position on the
bonus question leads to that predic-
ton. He made a public declaration
last December in his message to
Congress that he was not in favor of
bonus and said that the Treasury
could not reduce taxes and carry the
bonus at the same time.
The President has a precedent in
mind, that of President Harding
vetoing a former bonus bill. Mr..
Harding also vetoed the Pension bill.
That has helped Mr.. Coolidge make
up his mind to some extent. It Is
predicted here that Mr.. Coolidge will
not wait long to take action on the
bonus bill and that he is pretty Ger.
tain to veto 1t on the ground OF econ
omy. II he does exercise the veto It
is believed that Congress will at
tempt to pass the bill over his veto.
President Unhappy
President Coolidge is believed to
be unhappy in the situation in which
he finds himself and his party. He
Is troubled over the substitution of
Democratic measures for the Mellon
plan which he SO strongly advocated
as revenue measures. The Mellon
plan seems to be gone. In the House
the Garner revenue measure was
adopted as a substitute and now In
the Senate one finds the simmons
substitute adopted over the Mellon
plan.
The President Is not so unhappy
over the difference In the plans as
far as rates are concerned, but he
does not relish the idea of the grave
political situation which has been
brought about by the coalition Of
Republican insurgents and the Dem
ocrats. In other words the Republi-
can party has just. as good as lost
control of Congress in both houses.
la Toilette In Saddle
This state of affairs has placed
Senator La Toilette, of Wiscons sin,
completely In the saddle so far as
legislation is concerned He has a
little band OF seven, eight or nine
senators in the Senate who will do
his bidding: when they Join the
Democrats as they have been doing
the regular Republicans are beaten.
nd I'm the Houae the In Toilette
crowd has larger band, almost the
ntire Wisconsin delegation and
some others. They, too, have Joined
lands with the Democrats on numer-
Gus occasions aud can control the
situation there.
That II why II Is pointed out that
senator La Toilette might control In
event OF his being AT the head OF
third party this year. especially
The election should be thrown Int,