AMERICAN POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 18139, 1 December 1922, Page 4

AMERICAN POLITICS

REPUBLICANS IN DIFFICULTIES,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright* WASHINGTON, November 29. (Received December 1, at 0.5 a.m.) Mr Harding is having trouble with th«l old Congress, whoso tenure ends on March 4, and which lie li-aa -convened for a special sitting in tho hope of passing certain; legislation which be could not hope to pass through the new Congress because of the reduced Republican majority. The House of Representatives passed the ■Ship Subsidy Bill with one or .two vitiating alterations, but without amendment which would have denied the subsidy to ■any American ship carrying liquor. The Bill was passed by a small majority, more than fifty Republicans joining the Democrats in voting “No.” Meantime -the Bill cannot igo -to the Senate, because another Administration measure is already there which promises to disrupt the body. This is the Anti-Lynching Bill, which aims to protect the negroes In the South. It lias already passed jibe House, but the Southern -Sen atoms declare that they will not permit consideration! of -the measure in the Senate, .and have begun a “filibuster,” which they declare they will main-tain till 'March 4, making Ml legislative business impossible. A filibuster means opposition.Senators obtaining the floor will talk ini relays for months. The closure is not -applicable, and a vote is impossible.—A* laud N.Z. Cable.