Show I 1 nations national affairs aff bairs by FRANK P 1 with the scattered elections 11 s 0 f november 3rd ard over and the votes e counted ou anted the attention of 0 those interested in n american politics naturally turns to the coming 1011 loll of congress and the preparations boon to td be made tor for the major campaign ot f 1932 the democrats elected ejected three out of five congressmen and so BO evenly matched is 13 political strength in the house ot of representatives that this aou d seem to give thern them the organization it if there are no further changes and it if preliminary figures alove to be correct jack garner veteran texas congressman and friend ot of the late nicholas longworth will be chosen C as speaker of the house j the situation is not entirely comfortable tor for the democrats however in balte of 0 their slender paper majority already there are reports ot 0 f a division in ill tile the democratic ranks due to sectional demands and perhaps in a measure to old sectional prejudices it the rule 0 ot f seniority seaf Is followed fol loed as la is usually the case the house ill have not only olly a speaker irom tile the southern state ot of texas but about thirty chairmen out of a possible forty six ot of the congressional committees hailing balling from below the mason and dixon line this Is not entirely to the of the northern democrats and already there are to be heard charges ot of dixie domination ot of congress agn just what the results will be c cannot n 0 be stated it Is known however t that bat there Is considerable friction between a southern leadership of the democratic party and new york leadership which centers around Tami tammany nany hall now it if the rule of strict seniority is to be followed and no concessions concessi 0 ns are given to the northern democratic congressmen it would be easy for a few tammany democrats to absent themselves from the cession bession in which the house Is organized so throwing control back to the republicans whether they would go 90 so go tar far I 1 remains to be seen but it Is now evident that while the republican leaders leade rs in congress have their troubles with western insurgents the democratic southern ern leaders are not immune from tammany insurgents when the margin in the house Is close ot of course this Is all presaged on the supposition that the democrats will control the house so narrow Is the margin that almost anything might happen between now and the date on which the house Is organized governor fra franklin aklin roosevelt won out on his forestry y a amendment in to the new york constitution in spite ot of the opposition ot of former governor smith and the politicians bel believe leve that has strengthened Roosevel 0 0 s belts ts chan chances c tor for the democratic pr identical ident estion presidential e s ial nomi nomination n in 1932 there Is r till still plenty of opposition to the new york governor with governor ritchey newton baker and jim reed in the offing to say nothing ot of an occasional cry 07 from the dry democrats lor for william 0 mcadoo so far as the republican situation Is concerned there Is little change of the national committee say that there Is no question about the of president hoover in the next republican republic C an convention they say bay that it will be without organized organize ct 0 opposition thus thin far the only republicans who have come out in the open in their angling for the nomination against mr air hoover have teen been governor pinchot of pennsylvania anil and former senator france of bl maryland aryland friends of senator borah are said to hat bard offered him support it if he would agree to m make a ke the race but there is no evid evidence enec that he will do so EO of late there has been some revival in the newspapers of the gossip concerning senator hiram johnson as a candidate but the california senator although he has vigorously criticized the administrations foreign policy DM said nothing about being a candidate for president |