Show 9 0 P ta ONLY FIFTEEN NOMINALLY AND SOME OP OF THESE ARE LIKELY TO STRAY FROM FOLI FOLD D 1 WHIP WILL HAVE HARD TASK 4 1 president coolidge evidently trying i to satisfy the deslie of those re publican public ans loyalty to the i party Is rather shaky 11 by EDWARD 13 CLAR washington A count of the house of representatives as it will bo be conati when ali tho members meet in december proved that the republican lenders leaders musy walk wary lest les I 1 they undo the tha party Is the house in reality a republican house it would take n R test vote on some strictly partisan Part lali measure to supply the answer on paper the number fifteen will represent the majority of the republicans in the next house this Is a small margin and as somo some so BO called republicans are arc likely to leave the reserva on the slightest excuse for themselves the majority of fifteen liaf go the way of early caily day mist the foll following figures tell the story thero there will ha be republicans of the name in the house democrats one socialist ono one independent whatever that means and one who was waa elected as a farmer laborite special elections elect long to come are certain to bring the ho republican majority down to fit teen some of tho the members who were elected ns as republicans think along la follette brookhart lines conservative legislation such as it Is presumed calvin coolidge it if he should follow tho the bent of his mind would bo be likely to suggest for enactment would have a hard time of it in securing tho the sanction of tho the republicans republican acting as a body when tho the table of membership Is looked at and there Is realization of tho the unsteadiness of the republicanism of some of tho the republicans it Is 18 easy enough to understand why what ordinarily la Is considered conservative republican doctrine probably will bo be looked upon as something else by souie some i of the progressives progress ives who constitute no inconsiderable part of tho the house body hard took taik for the whip the republican whip of the next house it ho he shall succeed la in holding the unruly in bounds will deserve well bof of his republican comrades and of the administration thero there was a time when the party whip to do but those were the days of overwhelming majorities when tho the party leaders could look with equanimity on a revolt 0 f thirty to forty of their followers knowing that there were enough left to do the voting job well welland and surely there are some vacancies in the house but it Is virtually a foregone conclusion that six of the seats bents will be won by the democrats and t three bree by the he republicans and this result has been taken taked into consideration la iii giving the membership figures set get down above A democratic victory where republican victory was expected or the re verse verge would be of small arnall moment when v the general altu situation atlon la Is considered whether tho the majority Is fourteen four toen fifteen or sixteen makes little or no dlf j ference the road to the goal of party accomplishment through the house of representatives will be rough in any event Cb coolledge tries trie to please thorn them everything that thai has been done by the president up to the present time shows shotts that ho he Is trying to satisfy the s wishes if not the requests of those republicans who it ii Is feared might jump tho the fences unless heed Is given to their pleadings which on more than one occasion have taken on the form of demands an inquiry into the wheat situation in the northwest now in progress Is a case in point 1 an attempt Is to be made this winter by a minority of the majority to secure changes chances in the tha act the west and northwest particularly do not like that part of the act which virtually guarantees the rall ronda roads a certalic return there are a good many out and out government ouner ownership ship advocates in the lower house and there are some in the upper house it if legislation which some persons look upon as being radical once shall get started in the house noelle no one con can tell what may happen li appen because are just as there are radical republicans publican leaders will ivill attempt to do 8 to their brethren in some way so BO that they V will 01 remain with the conservatives on matters mattera considered crucial to party i la in the coming election it will be a trifle easier caster to hold the republicans together because the election Is to come on next year even those who seemingly only call themselves republicans realize that the party name will man something to them in a general election nad and that it if the nominee for lo 10 the presidency goes down to defea detent the ho la Is likely to carry with him bini the republican candidates for the house even if at heart hear they ore are opposed to the general administrative endeavor the thing tant the conservative re ile hughes time waste waite secretary of state delivered himself falmie lf of use the foU following awing in a speech rt at Providence it IL 1 i public are forced to elto half alf their timo to unnecessary contacts and a consider considerable uble portion 0 of f the national Is wasted by t tho 1 10 dominance in america today of it a letting vision it thirst for sensation and a relentless need foe motion 11 this public deliverance or of tho the secretary of state concerns itself with two things the time spent by public officials in doing work that ought to bo be done by subordinates and the alleged sensationalism of the press in dealing with matters ot government so tar far us iia the first section of mr Il remarks ri concerned lie ho of course Is everlastingly right the right or wrong in the second section Is or certainly may be open to argument everybody who visits a governing go government vernin ent department and succeeds in seeing the chief thereof knows about the time it may bo be that an american ambassador home on business of state Is engaged with high matters in the office of the secretary twenty times during the ho cohle conference rence of moment the door will be opened and an underling will come com 0 in with something chica it he 0 bryg must bo be signed abe train of thought and of conversation la Is biben and the secretary and athe ho ambassador are forced time after time to readjust their mentalities and to try to join once more the links of the subject important business often De delayed adelaed laed because of the unnecessary con cob facts which the chief of a department of goern government ment must mako make each day public business of high imbor tanco tance at times tins has been compelled to wait on business of low for weeks it Is known in washington that offie officials lats of the united states government gor doing duty in foreign countries have been called home for conferences feren ces and have been com compelled pella to stay in their hotels awaiting the leisure of the state department IN ft give them audience tho the present secretary of state has found t amo mo to talk to every cretu returned aed one but it so in the recent past with another party administration today however a returned nm ambassador bassa may get his state department contact but then ho he must valt on contact with a higher office which it la Is necessary to make before full sanction can be stamped on the program of action formulated in the department of foreign affairs 11 everybody who has read the rage page letters knows that ambassador rage pago was brought home from england for a conference and that he could not get it the seeming neglect of the ambassador on his return generally has been put down to resentment because of hla his freely expressed opinions in letters to io the state department and to the administration in view of the known condition of things in thode tho de apartments part ments of government the waste 0 of too time made necessary by the importunities port unities of underlings and sequential visitors it may be that the reason given for keeping mr page at a distance was only holt half the real reason of correspondents correspondent As AB for or tho the second matter in which secretary hughes more than touched in hla his speech at providence the thirst for or sensation and a restless need tor for motion this in a way li in 0 criticism ot of correspondents who send out dispatches ba based baledon sedon on guesses which they make on less th than anthe the spur of the moment there Is plenty of reason for this complaint odthe of the secretary for or it Is a complaint and nothing else and nobody probably deplores it more than tho washington newspaper man who tries to write at least fairly well thought out matter and what may be called seasoned stuff take a caso case in point within a tew few days a dispatch which was printed widely rent y ent out from washington to the effect that the proposal for an economic conference to help straighten out european financial finan clai mat was more than likely to bo be re and to be put to the test ofton ot congressional gressl approval this dispatch was based apparently on nothing elso else than the fact that lloyd george had expressed sorrow that tho the hughes plan had not been acted upon coincident with the sending bending of this dispatch others went out from other sources carrying official dental denial of any intention on the part ot the adm administration lils to give con consideration considerate on to td tho the hughes scheme for it a world economic parley readers of newspapers newspaper throughout the united states had the chance to read cheek by jowl one ona article declaring one thing and another article carrying official dental denial of its truth probably tho the departments in washington are too timid about publicity the result naturally Js Is gues iwori guesswork it Is bad business |