Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-11-19 | Page 21 | Rocky Road is before Harding

RFFflRFT Trouble Likely When He I Presses His Program of Legislation. P.v GEORGE R HOLMES (International i u. Service.) WASHINGTON. Nov. IS. A rocky road stretched away in froqt of Presi- d nt Harding and his administration leaders tonight on tho eve of the reassembly re-assembly of the Sixty-seventh congress. con-gress. Congress convenes on Monday wllh scores of Its present members in both houses defeated at the polls and due to retire at tho end of the special winter session. On Tuesday President Harding Hard-ing will go before a Joint session with a short and emphatic message. VOlO-l Ing the administration's demand lhat this congress pass tho controversial ship subsidy measure forthwith. Thi- message was virtually completed complet-ed tonight. The president will inform both houses that they were called back to Washington three weeks early for no other purpose than to pass this mcasuro, and he will stress the need for Instant action Administration leaders at tho capital capi-tal arc sot for a tremenduous effort to drlvo the measure through under: the lash of White House discipline, but whether they can accomplish the taski marked out for them was considered j a matter of considerable doubt tonight.