San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-12-04
ECON GRESs
ATMOSPHERE
KEYS UP
republican Leaders Face
Uncertain Situation in
LaFsllette Issue.

!. wASHlNGTOS, Dec. 40
4 With the Senate Republican confer
/, nee called for tomorrow and the La
toilette issue still troubling party
cadcrs, the pre-convening atmosphere
/ & the new Congress today was keying
- for the gavel fall on Monday.
n Republican leaders in the Senate
<<ill faced an uncertain situation in
heir efforts TO have the party confer
||mce tomorrow recognize without Is
k}ne the Republicnnism' Of Senator
|Iect LaFofette Of Wisconsin. Sem
1tor Batter Of Massachusetts,, chair
main Of the Republican national com
nittee. Is one Of the numbers of SEN
It0rs apparently nct yet convinced the
'2an Of Senator Curtis, Kansas, the
majority floor leader, and other party
leaders to treat the Wisconsin senator
- Z party regular is warranted by his
I1peeches in his recent campaign.
RULES BIG ISSUE.
0snator LaFollette, whose campaign
1feg1nces are regarded by some SEN
&EDxB - constituting attacks on the
Republican party, has declined to in
fcate whether he purposes to accept
~ Invitation to attend the conference
DmorroR.
In the session ahead the question of
endment Of the Senate rules to pre-
Wcnt dlibusters is one that will proba-
~ ct least occupy many hours of de-
ate, and Vice President Dawes, al
ready i On the ground, prepared to
larry forward his fight for such q
hnnge. Since his arrival yesterday,
however, he has declined to make ans
<Glntement regarding his plans.
81 CALLS ON DAWES.
: One u the vice presidents first
Callers was Senator Underwood, Demo
craf, Alabama, whose proposal for :
Hhange Of Senate rules was introduced
It the special senate session last
March after Mr.. Dawes had launched
his reform fight in his inaugural adj
dress. Whether either the Underwood
resolution or another sponsored by
Senator Jones, Republican, Washing
ton, to shorten Senate debate, can re-
ceive . favorable vote in the rules com
mittee fer report in the Senate, Is
doubted b. both Republican and Demo
cratic leaders.
The House Republican leaders were
perfecting plans today to have the
House ret down to work on the tax
reduction bill after the reading Of
the Presidents message on the sec
ond day. The program for the open
ing day calls for organization anl
the receipt Of the report on the tax
FIRST GUN FIRED.
Y The first political gun Of the. ses.
. sion has been fired by Senator Har-
rison, Democrat, Mississippi, who de
claresin a formal statement that the
-'long vacation in which the President
has been permitted to exploit himself
and the misdeeds Of the sdministra-
kion are now at an end
in the coming Congress" be said
IAN accounting will be demanded and
the people shall know the hypo-
critical manner in which the govern.
ment has been administered during
the year.
~What Z spectacle h presented in
the House and Senate! In the one
the leadership Is not yet determined
whether recalcitrant progressives arc
70 receive committee assignments, and
IN the other the same political mus
keteers - Watson, Ernst and Gum
mingsHwho were most yociferous in
reading LsFcllette, Ladd and Brook
hart out Of the party, are now head.
ing pilgrimages TO the White House,
lmploring Presidential sancuor &c
yelcome them back into the fold.
FEAR AND TREMBLING.
The Republican party enters tbs
coming Congress in fear and trernb-
hing. With Borah as its leader in for.
eign affain, challenging the admin.
istration's position with reference &c
the world court, and Dawes, the Mus.
solini Of American politics, threaten.
ing invasion and destruction 10 those
Of his political faith, if they dare op.
pose his senatorial reform views, the
poor old Republican party is in for
rough shedding and a hard time"