New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-08-13

as eventuated in the last two year,
can be expected in 1928. The $685..
100000 surplus of 1927 came chiefly
out of homecoming items, he point.
out, and it has already been ap.
piled to retirement of the public
debt.
Both houses OF congress are ad
mirably constituted to make of the
first session of the SEVENTEEN con.
gress a battlefield well worth watch.
ing. Each house will have as pre-.
siding officer an aspirant for the re.
publican nomination Vice Presi.
ldent Dawes and Speaker Longworth
There will be As republicans, Al
democrats, and one farmer-labol
member in the senate, with at Least
three OF the republicans not at all
regular. and two others-Vare OF
PENNSYLVANIA and Smith Of Illinois
not even seated yet. The question
Of allowing these two men their
seats will be the first fight in the
senate. Thus the republicans can
not control the upper house.
| In Lower House
| Over on the south side Of the
capitol the outlook is not quite so
gloomy for the republicans, but 1t
cannot be called bright. The ma
jority Is fairly safe, except on GER
tain issues, like naval appropria-
! tons and farm relief. But there
will be splendid battles from the first
day on the tax measures and the ap-
preparations bills. both of which
must originate in the house of rep
resentatives.
| The democrats will be led by a
man who will not give the republic
cans the peace and harmony they
have enjoyed in the house for two
sessions. Representative John Car
ner Of Texas ranking democrat Of
the ways and means committee. and
the tax expert of his party, will be
the real minority leader of the SEES
sion, whether or not Representative
FINS Garrett Of Tennessee actually
relinquishes the post to devote HIM
| self to the campaign he will make
| for the senate next summer Both
| Garner and Garrett are boon COM
panions of republican leaders, par
| tlcularly Speaker Longworth, but
you would never know Jack Gar
ner ever liked any republican when
he starts a minority fight on the
floor. Fiery and smiling and vitriolic,
quick to take the advantage away
from his opponents in a battle of
wits. he is the ideal minority leader.
AS the big democratic fight is to be
an effort to force larger tax cut.
he will be the minority leader, no
matter whom the caucus elects, and
1t is highly probable that he will
succeed to the leadership in name as
we'll as in fact
In reality. he assumed the leader
ship last spring. The republicans
knew that Jack Garner, who halls
from the southernmost congressional
district in the United States, en-
tip OF Texas, and who will begin his
18th session (26th year, in congress
next December, was going to stage
a tax reduction scene toward the
end of the sixty-ninth congress. The
republican tax expert, Ogden L.
Mills of New York. resigned last
spring as a member of congress in
order to take up his duties as un-
der secretary of the treasury. Hast
lily bis resignation was withdrawn.
He stayed on in congress. People
began to wonder when he was going
to quit. 1t soon became clear that
he was being kept to head the re-
publicans when Jack Garner began
his onslaught.
When. just at the end fthe SEES
sion, the red faced, white-haired
jovial but not fat. SO year old veter-
an, whose length of service in con-
gres is exceeded by that of only
four men, marshalled his forces and
got his resolution for tax reduction
on the floor, all the seats We're filled,
and the republican leaders were
massed against the formidable foe. ,
The republicans saved their tax
cut for the election congress
but they did it only after sustaining
heavy losses. Every excuse they Of
fered against the tax cut was quick
ly met by Garner. Every time Ogden
Mills would say, I'VE would accept
your proposals if you would elimin-
ate so-and-so," Garner would
promptly and graciously accede to
republican demands, asking only
that some reduction be made i'm
mediately. The day was saved only
by the final admission of the re-
publicans that they simply were not
going to have any tax reduction just
then. That was what Jack Garner
wanted.
Thus both houses We're ably man
ned with picturesque and resource
full Opposition" leaders, including
Robinson and Caraway of Arkansas
and Reed of Missouri in the senate,
all of whom We're already straining
at the leash to get into the mad
scramble which the Seventeen Con-
gress cannot fail to be.
Copyright, 1927, General Press
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