New Britain herald., 1929-12-31
c1)M|NG ELECTIONS EXTRACT PROPHETS la
Congressional Contests Likely to
 1, Influence Years Events

fsi Washington, Dec. 3 GPl-Political
 ~oothsayers turn now to the crystal
 formed by the criss-cross events of
 4929 in the hope of deserving what .fies in store for ptrss;.sertunesss1as m
 she forthcoming congress onal elec-
 ssons .s .- ..,s, < tr Loomingslargest withi4 the myStS s.its- 1iall is the peculiar patHrn formed
 siy developments in the anate tariff
 Lewiston controversy and-xae routing ;af the anti-Srhith democratic-repub ,ncan coalition in the election of an
 dd-1ine democrat as governor ot Virginia.
 N What effect each is to have in thc sSalection of new house of repre- .sss9ntatives and one-third of the mem- Iiers of the senate next November is .ahe question 10 which these intent
 observers seek an answer.
 q Will the tariff fight, which has .tthrown a gulf between the North
 Iestern senators and the president, .a47use q political upheayal, compara Bile to some of those which, in the ts1ast. followed in the wake of general
 1hriff revisions?
 ssf Does the result in the Virginia
 asubernatorial election portend a
 Sway of the pendulum which will 3ssrase gains in the house which the iIepublicans made in the Old Donlin son and several other southern states .a little more than year ago as iJa cover split the solid south for the first time since reconstruction days? ,p Along with these go puzzles as 10 fine effect Of other, although lesser, 'aolitical events of the passing year, 'tfhere is the matter of the presidents j.affort to consolidate his southern IsSains by forming coalition patronage committees made up of anti-Smlth atlemocrats and republicans and i.thouse cleaning within the ropubl- l-lan organizations in some Of the lf4tates of Dixie.
 X There also is search for an an ,~swer to the question Of to what eN- t@lent national political feeling was Expressed in the otf-year 1929 cleo lrtions in which the democrats held i.ihe Kentucky legislature, reelected Ga mayor of New York City and pit Tnto office mayors in a number of snormally republican cities in lnda-' .ana. .... ]. Events in the senate have been Nariously translated by political stlE7 pdents. They have consisted fifst"1h s4isagreemen between the northwest 7 1trn republican senators. including tsBorah, of Idaho. and Broolthart,r ot llowa. and President Hoover prlnci- sspally on the tariff. and secondly in Ithe formation of an independent a~bloc around Borah, La Toilette and ENorris. 'D 4a This bloc has formed q. coalition ts.with the democrats similar to that felNisting just before the 1924 elec- fiIions and when a tax revision mea- taisure was before congress. The old suard republicans finally surrend- ,spred to the coalition on the tariff Nsbill, finding themselves hopelessly l.outnumbered.
 I3 Out Of that situation sprang up d Young Bloc" of administration Hsenators fairly new in their jobs, but rantent on getting some action on the s@tariff. This legislation, always the t.main point of difference between the ,i5'bld political parties still is in the i.making with a long controversy III ittprospect and one on which the dem issocrats will go to the country. a. '. Jouett Shouse. who took over q r rection of national democratic af isfairs early in 1929 with headquarters Fin Washington, made this clear in q F statement issued at the elnd Of the Especial session of congress and in ,4imhich he laid blame for 5he failure Ssof congress to act on the doorstep ot ly1he president. ...a
 k. Both parties are preparing for 'tlie s-fmpending contest for the support Of llt.sh he voters. Claudius H. Huston. a Y business executive of Tennessee. new 1rhairman of the republican national k~.ommittec. is cooperating closely Sewith the senatorial and congressional i. committees.
 wt MT. Shouse, who was appointed by s.IJohn J. Raskob, chairman of the ldemocratic national committee, has ,- been exceedingly active both in CO., p operating with his party committees fHn the congressional contests and al- s.. !so in issuing prepared statements tc ga,the country on passing political { ,tevCnts