Show PARTY SYSTEM FACES STRAIN IN CONGRESS CONGRESSI Bloc After Bloc Means eans Government By Compromise LEADERS UNHAPPY i Factional Fights Expected To Delay Service For Public BY fly T gfALL Special Oo of ot The Standard WASHINGTON Dec Dee 1 Con Con Con- 1 greas meets Monday l with tho Re-I Re Re- Re Republican publican majority in anything bul but buta a happy frame of or mind Party is 15 bein being sought Bought but there theres s every very reason ason to lo e that dur- dur dur during lag ing the next six or eight months month the tho system of government bY party will see seo Its severest e erest strain Government by com compromise prom Is promises to take Its place as aa bloo blod after aner bloc arises anses to o be dealt WIth It is 1 difficult at this writing 0 o toO see bow holl any arty program can be mapped mopped ou hope tor for Its success Even so 60 sensible a thing thine as u tho Mellon plan for tor the reduction of taxes taxes-s a plan which has haa swept ept the country by storm promises storm promises to be cut to pieces by compromises first In 20 one olle then in III another hl coming congress Is IJo to be too much mucK ot o 0 a battle ground for for- forny any ny very definite legislative pro pro- program pro gram ram to be bo put through LV IN NAME NAMI ONLY The Republican leaders have ol cont ot of house and senate sena in inflame I III flame only Their sway may be UP- UP upset up-boet up set at t the tho whim ot of any ono of ot haltI halt half dozen blocs The loaders leaderS must I oder to those blocs at ot all aJl times The Democrats will have hava snore more power In making legisla legislation or tion-or tion or blocking blocking- t tan it-tan It Ulan they have hao since 1111 1811 and they may may- maybe be counted on to leav leae no DO stone tone un- un unturned un unturned turned to make the pathway path PAth ay of the Republicans a o difficult one on in la the elections of ot next year Partisan advant advantage and anti personal are the two ale ele- elements ele elements ments which promise to control much ot of the activity of or the coming session aelon The known pitfall pitfalls and difficulties ties tics tie of ot congress are legion Added to thee those these tonight i Is the uncertainty os to what hat hat President Coolidge III have to say In his first tint mell-go mell to the making law-making body Further than to announce that the Harding policies were to be adopted as II Ills his own and own and this promise wasI was I i made in those first t tensely dramatic 1 momen moments after atter his isis unexpected cIa ele- ele elevation I ration atlon to high Mr office office Mr Coolidge had said eaid nothing that would give a definite and direct line on the tha char char- character character acter aeter or scope of ot his bis recommendations recommendations MONTHS 1 or OF Mr Coolidge has lias been in the White House four tour monti but they have been months of ot seclusion tad d deliberation Ho has ha been pre I Jag Ine Ing himself tor for tho the bow he ho i Is to I make snake to the tho public next I day clay No president has hae II a amore amore moro more difficult task The Coolidge I creed so tar far as national and Inter Inter- InterI internatIonal International I national Issues are aro concerned Is an unknown quantity Un Un- Un Un-liko Un liko most moat other othor presidents be he has hns no campaign speeches behind him Ino no Inaugural pledges no platform promises Except In so eo o tar far as he feel Ie alty to some ot of Mr lIar lIar-I Har- Har dings ding's Harding's plans hOl he IS 18 II ft free agent agent Much is expected of ot Mr In his message But he Iso know knows In InI I advance that hi his political enemies I and these exist within the G 0 0 P Pas Pas Pas as well welt as without are aro waIting for tor forthe the opportunity to pounce upon him and criticize not alone for what he says ays but for tor all that may be b len left unsaid Tho The haa has been walt walt- walty walting WI 1 y Ing tor for Mr Coolidge the men m n of silence to say eay ay something And nd upon sl on Page Twos Two PARTY SYSTEM IS MENACED Continued from tram Page Pace One what he says tn In n his hia opening address to congress s may depend hIs bis entire political future The American people the are given to Quick judge judge- judgement ment They have been giving Mr Coolidge his period of preparation Now ha ho must step Into the tha full glare of ot the spotlight ht Ha lIe must make Ills his plea and stand or fall by It lit LEADERS NOT SLIGHTED In all fairness It must be bo said I A IAM A vm the congressional lonal leaders have cave Inot not felt slighted by tho the tact that they havo have not been a 10 allowed ed to dic- dic dictate tate dic-tate Coolidge c mes mes- message message ot of the tate an any part leaders titanic sage The congress you have their own hands quite not yet How How- Hoover over How fUll and the tha endis over the stage stage will III be bo carefully set setI for Mr Coolidge Truces will be I red declared for tor the time being The president will have hIs hs day And then the fun begins In the hou house o things appear to have been smoothed out by the withdrawal al ot of all contests a Representative Nicholas Longworth as floor leader The sought to defeat him but they could not muster sufficient votes and their militant leaders got out ot of the tho race Mr Longworth how how- however however however ever will ha have havo 0 his hands full Homay Ho Homay Homay may be able eble ble to control the majority wIthin his own party but when It comes to leading the battles on the floor he will bo ho confronted not alone by hIs bis 0 own n minority but bythe by bythe bythe the Democrats as IlS well wen as then It will be different Mr Longworth Is Isan isan Isan an old and a diplomat He will have havo to be lots Hof ot both to keep his forces together and to lead his party porty through the tho mazes that confront it It Ho He Is still voting Soung and bold and for tor oi the Job that is before him I FUR FUK WILL FLY It Is In fn the senate that the fur promises to fly from the begInnIng of the session to the end Mr Lodge appointed a couple of ot lead leaders ad- ad adore ers ore In the last session of the tho sen- sen senate senate sen senate ate Ho will need halt half a dozen thIs time Someone has suggested that the assistants ought to be called conspirators for tor rho sundry kInds of Republicans that are aro to flock under the wing of the tho dis- dis distinguished dis distinguished I senator from Massachusetts Isetts That Is the great handicap of the I Republicans In the the tho i counting of Republicans as a 0 group ot of senators who ho wont won't tall fan in when the captain shouts the tho order but are Inclined to tall fall out at atthe athe the slightest pro provocation Mr Lodge Is 1 certainly handicapped and when whon he has to lead leod such Independents independents independents as LaFollette I Ladd Magnus Johnson and lothers others of ot the wrecking crew and when one realizes that the slender thread by which the Republicans control the senate consists of thIs particular brand ot of o Republicans the dIfficulties that confront the party uty In the tho supper branch of ot congress are manifest Democrats In the tho senate are Il clamoring for tor larger representation on the important committees And yet It if the Republicans grant this Increase based upon Democratic gaIns at the last election they will lose logo control of the committees be- be because be because cause ot of the tho Independent Republicans Republicans Republicans cans thereon Taken Taken altogether the senate clash Is going to bo be a 0 spectacular one land and after the tho factions get through I fighting each other it if they have hn any spare time on their hands the tho pUblic business may get Its need ot of attention |