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Show - 'PAimES AHE DWIDED LtADIRS HAVE LITTLE HOPE OF : RESTORING MORE THAN SURFACE SUR-FACE HARMONY AT PRESENT. 1 1 Storms Ahead in Extra Session of I Congress, There Being Virtually Four Parties, Each With Large j Representation, Working Very ; Much at Odds. I I Washington. It la dally beriMiilnfi manifest that congrc Is facing 11 6truiy tension, and tloj-e can be ni forecast of the probabilities. The fact that both of the great po litlcal partloH are divtdHl Is in longer denied, and the leader appeal 1 to have lluki hope of restoring won I Hun surface harmony. ' There are virtually fouf parties each with a large repritientation working at odds, in the present ses sion. Th Ilevuhllcan minority of th f hou I divided between regulars an Insurgents, as was evidenced by th vote on the upeakvrshlp contest The breach between these two fai tlons la ven wldur In the Itepubllea majoiitlof the senate, i. a.A 1'tie has been drawn bi twn(ti conservative Democrats r the seate( who are opposed to an n attempt at 'dictation by William . '"j Bryan, nnd tho progressive Deux s cratM, including practically all the nei n members tnd several veteran Ilk y Senai'or Stone of Missouri, who ar B Uryan adherents. The bonce Di'iiu cratic majority sit-ins to have ef caned a brink, but the leader fea th party contest In the senate ma; " at any time spread to the o'he r branch. The situation baa interfere' with the wilt-lion of comiurttees am ' the beginning of liglslailve work. Possibly there never has been t congress where no much un-ertaint) enisled and where the uni'asiie bat been so equally diatrlhu-el between the two major political parties. 1)1 course thla I due In part to the fac( that in the present congress the Democrats Dem-ocrats are In power In the house and the Republican are In control of the senate. The real cause of the anxiety is be Ileved to bo the proximity of the party conventions which will a"l''ct the standard bearer for 112, and the knowledge that a slip by either in the extraordinary session of the regular session may determine the result of the next national campaign. |