AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18768, 23 January 1923, Page 7

AMERICAN ADMINISTRATION

BiC FICHT LOOMING. PUBLIC SYMPATHY AGAINST FRANCE. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, January 22. (Received Jan. 22, at 9.20 p.m.) Feeling in senatorial circles is running so high over the Administration that many rumours are circulating. There is a report that Mr Hughes is out of sympathy with President Harding s policy and will resign, but Mr Hughes has denied the rumour. Another canard was that Mr Hughes had euarrclicd with Ambassador Harvey. This also has been dissipated. , Meanwhile, the stage is set for one of the biggest fights known in American poll tics over the foreign policy of the Government. When Mr Wilson met a senatorial stonewall over the League of Nations it was because the Senate war- Rennhhcan. Now a Republican Senate is on the verge of breaking the leash of a Republican President. Tlicr;. l is a storm in Washington in the air. President Harding, who is just recovering from an illness, is overwhelmed with work, and the chief Under-Secretary for StaU has resigned to a.wmme an am ha-wadorial position, leaving Mr Hughes with more work, seme senators allege, tlmn he can do. The reports from the Ruhr are also causing some disouictnde. Public opinion ran definitely bo said to be settinu against the French. It i« remarkable to note how svmpathv. which during the war was always w’th the French, is turning the ether way.—A. and N.Z. Cable,