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Show LONG PROMISED SHOWDOWN IN CAPITAL BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND SENATE LOOMS THIS WEEK IBv ROBERT T. SMALL, special Corrwpondent of The Stand -nrd-I'.amliur. (Cnpvripin. 1022, by The Standard; Examiner.) WASHINGTON, June 17. The coming week should witness the long-promised long-promised "ehowdown" between President Presi-dent Harding and tho .senate. When Air Harding entered the White House thi .rouble" that he thought never would come to him would be a wrangle with the senate When ho took leave of his colleagues in the upper chamber Just after the election id 192A. ho told them that he wanted them to think of him as still one of them understanding their problems, sympathizing with their views and wanting at all times to co-operate with them, but nVvor to dictate. ' There will bo none to deny that tho president has tried to Btlck to his binds off conxreas policy. He his been long suffering; some of his warmest friends say loo long. As a senator. Mr. Harding resented the Idea of presidential direction or intimidation intimida-tion of congress. The whole idea of "cracking tho whip" over the 'legislative 'legis-lative branoh of the government wat repugnant to him. but Mr. Harding served all of his senatorial term under un-der B Democratic president. But the situation Is different now. The presidem at last is convinced that if he ontlnues to ke i hands off, the situation in the senate will " from bad to worse at so fast a pace that the present unsympathetic reeling on tho part of the people towards congress con-gress to put It mildly will grow into such a storm of protest as to threaten Republican supremacy In the house of representatii es and discredit the entire administration. The straw' that broke the patient bacK of President Harding was the announced plan of Senator .Mi-fum-ber, chairman of the finance committee, com-mittee, to sidetrack the tariff on Mon-' day in favor of the soldier bono- bill, j It so happens that Mr. McCumbWa committee has charge of both the tariff tar-iff and the bonus and while Senator Lodge ha retained titular leaders lip In the sc vat. Chairman Mc n er virtually Is in the saddle --o icag as his committee measures arc under COItald ration. Mr. "Lodge has ' ! Mr. McCumber ,in pretty free hand, but like Mr. Harding h has drawn Him linr at sidetracking the tariff for the bonus. President Harding called COhgn jh in a session April 11. 1021. for the express purpose of reducing laxes and revising the tariff. That the tariff, the poor old, much-abused tariff, once the talismun of the (j. O. P., would still be subject to sidetracking in tho middle of June. lf22. Is a little more than so tolerant a president as .Mr Harding ha proved can stand. There is little doubt that President Harding Hard-ing will win his point in his parly conference, the senators have been summoned to hold ;it 10 o'clock Monday Mon-day morning. Just an hour before the time Mr. McCumber has threatened to displace the tariff by calling up the bonus. The only question now iK. how far will Mr. McCumber and some of the other decidedly pro-bonus si n-ators n-ators go in making a combination with the Democrats to override the Republican majority decision. Many senators feel a deep sympathy sym-pathy for Mr. McCumber. He must stand the test of the primaries In Just ten days ami a bitter fight Is being made against him in his home slate Of North Dakota. The tariff and other oth-er duties haw held the senator In Washington. He has been unable to make a campaign But he has been placing great faith in the bonus to help him out He has felt that if he. could bring the measure up for consideration con-sideration In the senate by the lime the primary ballots are cast it would help his chances for renomlnatlon tremendously, c ti If the bill itself should fall of passage, or should bo vetoed after passage. On the other hand, friends of the pn sident have resented the Insistence of some senators in demanding that the bonus bill be given prior consideration consid-eration to the tariff, for they say tho president has threatened to veto a bonus bill which does not provide Its own revenue, and on the eve of a congressional con-gressional election, which will Involve at least an Indirect passage of Judgment Judg-ment on the entire administration, thev do not yvant the president to face a veto. These same senators say the president has enough friends in the senate to talk a bonus measure te death at this tlnl- In order to protect him from the veto issue. There is no doubt the Democrat? will line up solidly with Mr McCumber McCum-ber If he eart h r out his Intention of forcing a vote on displacing the tariff in favor of the bonus. They vttll do , this for two reasons Many of the Democrats faor the bonus Inasmuch as the Republican- will havo to find Kn i-.-nn..i n A ,Ioa w . . - ,J Ingly---and further mon 'hey want to i do anything whfch will cause a I schism or the appearance of a schism, in the Republican ranks All things considered, the legi'1'!-tlve legi'1'!-tlve muddle at the capltol l. worso than it has ever been in yeans The tariff Is nowhere near enmj letlon. The three important schedules, wool sugar and steel, have not ly-un i touched. When they arc 'aken up, ' consideration of the bill may "c said ', to have just been begun, and it will I take weeks, if not months to got ; through with them The sugar BChed-J BChed-J ule has been "postponed until August." Aug-ust." This means that even hope of enactment by September 1, is but an empty dream. After the tariff mut come ehlp j subsidy or President Harding will i call an extra session On Dp of all this is the bonus bill which will not down. I Small wonder that senators have broken out their linens and palm ! beaches and air- preparing to fifcht it. out on many lines all :nroun the , long hot summer. oo |