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the severty-second Congress and not
shrink from them. Certainly they Offer
the opportunity for many pitfalls, foI
much criticism If mistakes are made
and for little glory.
Just at this moment it seems that Il
the Republicans keep the organization
Of the Senate and also of the House
their control of both bodies will be
nominal. Especially will this be the
case in the Senate. The ruling force
in Congress at both ends of the Capt.
t0l for the next two years will be a
coalition. Outwardly 1t will appear to
be under control of the regular Re
publicans, but actually it will be doni-
mated by an alliance of Democrats and
Progressive or Insurgent Republicans.
VIII Be Anti-Administration
How militant the House insurgent
Republicans will be remains to be seen.
But there is no doubt that the group
captained by Senator George Norris, OF
Nebraska, just triumphantly reelected,
Will be fighting and aggressive force
which will have to be reckoned with in
every important situation that arises.
The coalition will be anti-administra-
ton, and when President Hoover sends
his first message to the Seventy-second
his program to the consideration of his
critics ano political enemies.
An extra session of the Seventy
second Congress next spring is not i'm
probable. Numerous signs are given
that one will be forced. Otherwise, the
new Congress will not meet until De-
cember, 1881. If there is no meeting
until December, 1881, the mass of bust
ness imposed on the Congress neces-
@nfilu will ho roctriPfpd than 1T III
meets In an extra session next Spring
and follows this up with the regular
long session.
Limited Program for Short Session.
Naturally, those members who be-
neve that the country is better off
with a minimum of legislation and
when Congress is not in session will
resist an extra session, but they will
not settle it. 1t will rest in the hands
of an aggressive body of insurgents
and Democrats to say whether or not
an extra session will be forced by
blocking passage of part of the appro-
pTiation Ellis in the December session
Of the present Congress.
While there Is much interest just
now in the work of the coming short
session of the old Congress, which
meets December /, it at best will have
but q lirnited program. In a three
months session it Is almost impossible
to pass any large constructive measure
other than appropriation bills, unless 1t
involve little controversy. So, for
practical purposes, it can be put down
as settled that the short session will do
little TO relieve the Seventy-second Con-
gress of any important share of its
burdens.
Full Slate Faces Seventy Second.
Among the questions which the new
Congress will have to grapple with are
prohibition, power, railroads, radio.
tariff, taxation, farm relief, postal rates,
the public land policy, the Philippines,
immigration, anti-injunction, revision
of the banking laws, short selling and
other aspects of speculation, unemploy-
ment legislation of permanent nature,
the merchant marine, the inland water
ways, a new canal in Nicaragua, the ST.
Lawrence waterway and effective hni=
tation of campaign expenditures.
Vast appropriations will have to be
considered. Stricter attention to gov
eminent economy is likely to be i'm
posed by the necessities of lowered rev.
enues. The ever troublesome ques-
ton Of the war debts may be reopened,
and it will be necessary to say how far
the Government is to go in furthering
public works in order to take care of
Unemployment, unless conditions change
radically and quite speedily.
World Court Issue Pending.
Here alone are more than a score Of
subjects of major Importance for the
consideration of the new Congress
Obviously. the new Senate will be called
on to pass on the vexed issue of ad-
herence to the World Court under the
Root formula. Not impossibly steps
will be taken to strengthen or imple-
ment the Kellogg treaty, with the re-
suit that treaty or convention on this
subject will be put up to the Senate.
Russia, Cuba, Latin America, China,
not to mention other parts of the world,
may give rise to serious matters for
congressional or Senate consideration.
The policy as to the Navy and espe-
cially whether this country is going
to build up to treaty limits or be con-
tent with much less than that, evi-
IDENTIFY will be Shunted over to the new
Congress
These may be said to be a list of
some of The highest peaks of the noun
tatns the new Congress will be expected
TO scale. But there will be plenty of
other obstacles IN the legislative geog-
raphy. Scores of other subjects will
have to be taken into account, some
OF them quite as .perplexing as those
Control Slender Affair.
Nor is it to be overlooked that con-
troll OF the organization of the House
and Senate in the new Congress will
be q har-trigger thing. Such control
might be upset any day, almost any
minute. Nicholas Longworth of Gin
cinnati, faring forth some fine morning
as Speaker of the House and going to
the Capitol in the Speakers car, might
nnd himself thrown out of Office before
night by a Democratic and insureent
combination, and be forced to see John
Nance Garner of Uvalde, Tex, step
into his place, take his chair and his
car, while he would ride home in a
taxicab.
The next day Speaker Garner might
see himself similarly ousted. In the
Senate will be much the same uncer-
tainty. This close division of party
strength and uncertainty as to the
permanence OF the control of the or
ganizatlon will greatly add to the diff
ncultles OF dealing with vast legis-
Iative program.
prohibition Likely to Be Faced.
The progress of events and the re-
suits OF the recent elections have
tended TO force on the attention of
Congress number of subjects hereto
lore evaded. For instance, there is
prohibition. Members of both houses
realize as they have not realized since
the Volstead act was passed that some
thing Will have to be done about il.
1t looms up as a disconcerting and
grave issue for both parties in the 1882
campaign.
Obviously, the short session of Con-
greSs does not intend TO do anything
important on prohibition if it can helm
1t. The worries and vexations of the
wet and dry contention will be imposed
on the new Congress.