Evening star., 1925-12-05
FIGHT FOR RECORDS
.|SEEN IN CONGRESS
Entire House and 33 Senate
, Seats Vacant Soon After
: End of Session.
BY the Associated Press.


Politics will be the Iodestone in the
first session of the Sixty-ninth Con
eress. which begins Monday.
Leaders of both parties will have as
their chief concern the writing OF rec
ords upon which they may go to the
country in the 1926 congressional cleo
tons. which will crowd closely upon
The ending of the session.
The Republicans will seek to enact
Legislative program upon which TO
stand in asking the voters to return
ma jorities for their party in both
houses during the closing two years
Of the present administration of Presi-
dent Coolidge.
DemOcats Seek Flaws.
The Democrats will devote their ef-
forts to focusing public attention upon
what they will denominate the short
Comincs of administration, legislative
nd executive, under the power or the
Republican party. and to outlining a
program of government which they
would undertake TO carry into erect
should they be returned to the control
Of Congress.
Tn this process vast waves of words
will inundate both chambers. but more
especially the Senate. where there are
fewer handicaps upon flights of ora
tory than in the House. In the latter
body many political speeches will
remain nnSpoken. but will find their
way into the Congressional Record
under the privilege of extension OF
remarks"
Political maneuvers and speeches
will neCessa rily delay the work of
Congress- but probably neither side
viii he loath to stretch the session ont
until Midsummer or later, for the
Senate and House furnish a ready TO-
lum for political orators, forum that
has few counterparts anywhere else
on the globe.
Entire House Involved.
In the campaign which will be in
ausurated almost Immediately after
the gavels fall on December I and
which will he continued until next
November. there will be involved
every seat in the House and 33 of
those in the Senate. The Republica ms
have comfortable ma jorities in both
houses and their fight will be not only
10 retain them but to strengthen their
hold.
in the contests for Senate seats,
however, the majority party will find
Il self on the defensive at the outset,
since 26 Republicans come up for re
election against ! Democrats. all OF
whom are from solidly Democratic
states in the South.
Without facing the necessity for de
Tending their home base, the Demo
crafts viii plan their battle so as to
carry the offensive TO the enemy" at
all times. concentrating their heaviest
artillery in those States of the East
and West where admittedly the con-
tests are likely to prove close.
Leaders Come Up.
Among the 26 Republicans up for
reelection are many of the party
wheel horses. These include William
NJ. Butler. chairman of the Repub-
lican national committee and the
Presidents chief spokesman in the
Senate: Charles Curtis of Kansas, the
Republican floor leader, and James f.
Watson of Indiana, assistant floor
leader.
In the list also are George II. Moses
OF New hampshire. president pro tenn
pore of the Senate: Reed Smoot of
Utah. chairman of the finance commit
tee; James W. Wadsworth, jr.. of New
York. chairman of the military com.
mittee; George Wharton Pepper of
Pennsylvania, Albert b. Cummins of
Iowa. Wesley l.. Jones of Washington
and Hiram Bingham of Connecticut.