Milford chronicle., 1926-07-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
(From National Editorial Association
Especial to Chronicle)

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
(From National Editorial Association)
Especial to Chronicle)
Washington, July 7-Congress
closed up shop this week with its
counters heaped with undelivered
goods. Some of its undisposed-of
wares will doubtless be busted off
when another session is begun in
December. Among these is postal
rate legislation. The trial of agri-
cultural relief will doubtless wind
through the November elections and
into the next session. The rivers and
harbors bill is among other impor-
tant measures which have gone over.
If you sought out Mr. COolidge's
friends in Senate or House lobbies
just before Congress adjourned they
told you the Administration was sat
isfied with much that Congress did,
or rather left undone. Talk now to
some of the Republican "Old Guard"
still tarrying at Washington and you
will find them not so pleased with
the immediate political prospect. Be
yong they visualize already some of
the possibilities of the Presidential
year of 1928. The investigation of
campaign expenditures in Pennsyl-
vania conducted chiefly by Senator
Jim Reed, of Missouri, is among
their problems. The investigation is
to go on during the heat of the sum-
mer and the heat of the fall cam
paign. Many believe it will un-
questionably leave it's mark upon the
present and the next Congress and
become a factor in the national con-
Vention and national campaigns two
years hence. From Pennsylvania it
is turning into Illinois and other
states. It's end is not even in sight.
It has become a vehicle for politics
that may run far and fast along the
political highway of the future.
With the closing of Congress and
the departure of the President for a
protracted vacation in the Adiron-
dacks, official life at Washington will
settle down to dull unrelieved rou-
tine. 1t is out in the country that
national news will develop and be
disseminated during the summer and
fall. Senators and congressman are
rushing home to feel the political
pulse of their people and prepare for
what is to come in November and the
next Presidential election.
There are Democratic Senators
who express the hope that the next
Senate will be Democratic; there are
Republican Senators who profess to
be equally confident that the Senate
will remain Republican. For the
nonce legislation will give way more
fully to politics except where the
legislative record the past session
left behind it is dragged into the
pending Senatorial and Congression-
al campaigns.
Congress is gone for the time be-
ing. The country is entering upon
a season of stock-taking by all po-
Iitical groups. While the people
turn to base ball and fishing, the
politicians will continue to study the
political horizon in an effort TO reat
the storm clouds gathered there al
ready. A guessing contest as to th'
meaning of those clouds is going
steadily forward. 1t will continue
until the polls close in November
Then may be gathered some rea
idea of what the next Congress shal
be, and of what the issues of the mex
Presidential campaign shall dictate
In the. meanwhile Congress has scat
tered homeward and the long trail o
the future is yelled in uncertaint!
and doubt
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When the summer vacation perio(
is over more than peep into thu
actualities of the future may be pro
vided, but it is too early now to dC
much more than speculate about th'
future. Sheer guessing-for tn
presents in order.
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS
Written for Milford Chronicle by
Frank p. LitSchert