AMERICAN CONGRESS

Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 31

AMERICAN CONGRESS

PRESIDENT’S POSITION WEAKENED. NEW YORK, July 3 The Washington correspondent of the New York Times states that Congress will adjourn to-morrow, leaving much important legislation unpassed and showing a remarkable divergence of opinion between the Republican President and the overwhelming Republican legislature. Mr Cool, idge succeeded in getting favourable action upon several matters of policy, notably a reduction of taxation, adherence to the World Court, and ratification of various war debts, except France’s. Important recommendations made by Mr Coolidge which Congress ignored were—the restoration of seized German property, and the isuing of bonds by the T nited states to pay the American claimants against Germany; shipping legislation to secure the centralistion of the control of the Government-owned merchant marine; legislation to increase the efficiency of prohibition enforcement; the centralisation of authority in the departments of Labour and Commerce to deal with coal emergencies and farm aid as a result of which a fund of 100,000 dollars would have been loaned to the co-operative marketing associations. The failure of this farm legislation may cause a political upheaval in the west and change the political complexion of the next Congress, and may also defeat Mr Ooolidge’s renomination for the Presidency in 1928.