REBUFFED BY SENATE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18965, 12 March 1925, Page 9

REBUFFED BY SENATE.

COOLIDGE'S EXPERIENCE. APPOINTMENT OF MINISTER. REJECTION OF NOMINEE. By Tclcsrapb—Prcßii Association— Copyright. (Received 8.5 p.m.) A. and y.Z. WASHINGTON. Mar. 10. The President, Mr. Calvin Coolidge, has just received his first set-back since he assumed (he Presidency in his own right, aiid one of Ihe most serious rebuffs from Congress over experienced by a holder of his office. The Senate to-day failed to confirm Mr. Coolidge's appointment to the Cabmet of Mr. C. B. Warren as AttorneyGeneral in place of Mr. H. F. Stone, who was recently made a Judge. The Vice-President, General G. Dawes, who, as President of the Senate, could have secured Mr. Warren's nomination, was absent. He hurried to the Senate Chamber in a taxi, but arrived too late. Reconsideration of the matter was rendered impossible by a technicality. The vote on the appointment camo suddenly, after a day's debate concerning Mr. Warren's eligibility. This was bitterly opposed for various reasons. The chief of these were his legal connection with large sugar beet companies, and the fact that Mr. Coolidge had not consulted a Senatorial delegation from Michigan, where Mr. Warren resides. ) his was considered an affront to the dignity of the senators concerned. Pseudo Republicans Expelled. The action of the Senate is one of the most striking facts in the recent political history of America. So far as domestic affairs .are concerned the Republican leaders had expected Mr. Coolidge to lie supreme during his term of office owing to the preponderance of Republican majorities in both Houses of Congress as the result of the last election. • Every conceivable effort has been made to assure (he President's undisputed leadership of the Republican Party and in the affairs of the country. An important step in this direction was taken when the Republican Congressional caucus expelled from the party yesterday those members of the House of Representatives and Senate who, while they were supposed to be Republicans, had, during the last campaign, affiliated themselves with the Third Party led bv Senator R. M. La Follclfc. This action was taken in the face of Senator W. E. Borah's bitter protest, and with Mr. Coolidge's approval. The President said the parly's responsibility must be maintained and that those men should not hold important posts on the committees of either House. Congress Not to be Controlled. The rebuff which lias now been administered to Mr. Coolidge is the culmination of his attempt to control legislation during the past session of Congress. Hundreds of bills and resolutions were not enacted owing to untraclable legislators passing only appropriation bills. To one of these they furtively attached a provision to increase their own salaries by 25 per cent, to 10,000 dollars a year. This made the annual cost of Congress to the taxpayers more than 10,000,000 dollars. Mr. Coolidge, in spito of liia insistence upon economy, signed the measure for fear of developing further antagonism. Ho disavowed responsibility for certain recommendations of the last Congress, including the World Court, the reduction of taxes, the relief of agriculture through Government regulations, and co-operative marketing. The new Congress has now demonstrated that it recognises the spirit of its predecessor; riamely, that no man can count on being its master.