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Show JUST PLAYING POLITICS. Democrats in the Senate are repeating re-peating their follies of 1924, when they dissipated any chance their party rnay'have had of success in the national election by acting as a tail to the insurgent dog, and wagged into in-to existence the LaFollette third party par-ty movement which split the opposition opposi-tion .to the administration and brought about a sweeping Republican Republi-can victory. Just at 'the present the coalition is engaged in an attempt to manufacture manufac-ture political medicine for the campaign cam-paign of 1932. Little attention is giv- en to business before the Senate. An entire week was expended in clamor leading to a vote requesting the president pres-ident to'., return to the Senate nomin- ations of members of the Federal I Power Board whose appointments had already been confirmed. President Presi-dent Hoover was applauded by the country for denouncing this action 'as an attempted usurpation of the 'executive power. The Senate major- iity was attempting my this action to take control of minor appointments jihrough the threat of recalling confirmations con-firmations of any official who may displease the Senate opposition in ! the 'selection' of subordinates. i It is clear that what the coalition j"has in mind is forcing an extra ses-' ses-' sion of Congress by filibustering against the passage of the govern- ment supply bills. By refusing to the I government the money necessary to '.maintain the government during the 1 n ext fiscal year, the Senate coalition ct in compel the President to call the Ci ingress into extra session between now and July 1st. Few people Delia1 De-lia1 ve that the continuance of the I put ely political . uproar on Capitol Hill throughout the summer will be beneficial; most people believe that utilisation of an extra session to begin be-gin the campaign of 1932 will be an obstacle to the return of prosperity. Since the resumption of normal business busi-ness would doubtless handicap the op-positon op-positon to the administration and party in power in the next campaign, the realization of the necessity of keeping business disturbed may figure fig-ure in the determination of the coalition, coali-tion, to force an extra session of Corigress. What the coalition apparently fails to realize is that the people are more anx'ious for the ending of depression and 'unemployment than the furtherance: further-ance: of the ' ambitions of the politician politi-cian 5. They have grown weary of the clamor of political grand-standers and sensationalists, and a reaction is setting in, |