Milford chronicle., 1932-08-12
THE 73D CONGRESS- WILL BE
NEW AND UNTRIED
philadelphia Public Ledger


No matter, which way the presi-
dental battle goes in November, the
Seventy-third Congress will be a
stranger and an untried quantity
With the big guns of the campaign
still waiting to go into action, it is
already certain that the House of
Representatives will lose more than
fifty incumbents, and careful esti-
mates of the requirements which will
be made vary from 10 to II. The
Senate changes more slowly. Only
thiTty-two Senators are to be elect
ed this year, but the fOrecasters. are
predicting many changes among
those thirty-two.
The result, regardless of Senate
changes, will be. House of Repre-
sentatives with about one-third of its
membership new to Washington and
congressional procedure. In the light
of what fairly experienced House
did last spring, when confronted by
critical decisions, the outlook for
1888 is scarcely reassuring.
Twenty seven Representative
were lost without one vote being
cast. They are the members who
were caught in the reapportionment
Their districts won't even exist in
the next Congress. They will be
balanced in numbers by Representa-
tives from new districts in other
States, but the new members will,
nevertheless, be untTied newcomers.
Seventeen Representatives retired,
three of them in Georgia and three
in Kentucky. Five Representatives
dropped out of the race to run for
the Senate, all of them Representa-
tives of standing and ability. They
include Grail, of California; Crisp,
of Georgia; Dieterich, of Illinois;
Overton, of louisiana, and Stewart,
of New Jersey. twenty-five Repre-.
sentatives were defeated in the pri-
maries, five in Illinois, four in Penn
sylvania, three each in Florida and
Minnesota, and two in North Dakota
and Maine.
The list of those defeated includes
a number of men who can ill be
spared. Hawley, of Oregon, prob4>
ably leads the list, but it also in
cludes such men as Chindblom and
Igoe, of Illinois; Yoh, of Florida;
Garfield and Gillen, of Indiana;
of Iowa, who was men
toned for Speaker last fall; Snow
and Partridge, of Maine; Cristgau,
of Minnesota, and Norton, of Ne
braska.
On the Senate side, only two,
of Iowa, and Morrison, of |
North Carolina, are definitely out.
But number of others face hard |
fights. Senator Watson, the Repub-
lican floor leader, acknowledges his
in Indiana. Senator Bing-
ham, facing a Democratic swing
which elected a Governor VITO years
ago and is still strong, is hard at
work in Connecticut. Senator
Blaine, of the La Toilette faction in
Wisconsin, will stand or fall with
he La Follettes' success or failure
n warding off the strongest attack
ret made on them.
Senator Glenn is battling a Demo-
,ratic swing in Illinois which two
,ears ago sent James Hamilton
lewis to Washington by margin of
more than 100000 votes. Even Sena-
or Moses, president pro tenn of the
Senate, is waging an uphill fight in
Jew Hampshire. Senator Shortridge
will, have plenty trouble in Californ-
a, with William Gibbs McAdOo
to cap his Chicago coup
With bid for the Shortridge seat.
And Senator SmoOt, the Utah patri-
rch, is threatened with the same re-
irement already meted out to Rep
esentative Hawley, Smott's collab-
rator in tariff, revision.
So there is trouble aplenty already
rewed, and still more brewing. And
is not all political trouble. A Con-
ress filled with unfamiliar faces
leans a Congress unfamiliar with
9th problems and procedure. The
eventy-third Congress will have
lajOr problems to solve. Prohibit
ion, further economy, war debts, the
Muscle Shoals, naval
obstruction, banking laws, cur
eney, farm relief, the bonus-all {
lese matters have been left for the '
eventy-third Congress to unravel.
The prospect is none too pleasant.
he burden on the veterans who will j
emain will be heavy. And the
hances for new alliances will be !
good. No matter who {
pes to the White House next March,