The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-02
DEATH OF TESS
BILL IS DEFEAT
FOR COOLIDGE
Beat Official Measure
81 to rs
Especial to The Daily worker)


WASHINGTON, June 80. The
last hope for farm relief legislation
was blasted when the senate rejected
the Fess bill, sponsored by the official
Coolidge family. The farm-bloc, de-
teated few days ago in the crash
of its McNary-Haugen measure made
last stand against the Fess-Coolidge
bill and managed to garner 81 votes
against the Presidents 26.
The senate later passed the ineffec-
tual cooperative marketing measure
that has been condemned up and down
the country by farmers as being no
solution. However, it was considered
unimportant enough to be worth no
opposition and went over hands down.
C. 0. P. Lines Broken.
Where six months ago all save q
handful of the republican majority
were as regular as clockwork in their
support of the White House, today
there is split of such magnitude that
Mr.. Coolidge yesterday could com
mand in the senate but % republican
votes on controversial matter on
which he had asked for solid sup
port.
The senate's crushing defeat of the
Fess farm relief bill, endorsed by the
president and his cabinet, was the
browning blow at republican solidar-
ity this session,
Chasm Yawns.
The spectacle of a republican con
gress, on the eve of election that
is all important to the party, repudiat-
ing the leadership of a republican
president is almost without parallel in
recent political history. and it en-
phasized as nothing else could today
the width of the chasm that yawns
between the Coolidge and anti-Coo-
lidge wings of the party.
TO still further emphasize the re-
belliousness of the senate republicans
against the White House, the Fess bill
was the first controversial legislation
that President Coolidge has endorsed
and made an issue of this session.
Ordinarily, with two dozen republican
senator's facing reelection, the White
House would have only to lightly WELD
the party whip to obtain regularity,
but yesterday the whip was cracked
henacingly-and ignored.
Some Regulars.
Not only the insurgents from the
corn belt joined the democrats in over
riding the White House, but repub-
lican "stalwarts" as well. Included
among the 81 republicans who voted
TO ditch the Tess bill were such or
dinarily regular administration sup
porters as Reed and Pepper of Penn
sylvania, Watson and Robinson of In
diana, Bingham of Connecticut, Fer
nald of Maine, Pine of Oklahoma, and
the absentees numbered such regulars
as Smoot of Utah, Phipps Of Colorado,
and Greene of Vermont.
Whip Doesn't Work.
The vote on the Fess bill demon
strated conclusively that most of the
republicans up for reelection plan to
stand on their own records and make
their own fight, independently of
White House support or opposition.
Almost every republican senator who
voted against the Tess bill did so with
entire disregard to the flood of tele-
grams that were dispatched into the
capitol during the last IS hours from
state chairmen and national commit
teemen appealing to them to stand
by the president" The defeats suffer
ed in the primaries already by SEN
ators who bore the enlargement Of the
White House has not encouraged
those yet to face the voters to yearn
forsa label of regularity