AMERICAN POLITICS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16904, 1 December 1922, Page 4

AMERICAN POLITICS.

y . n PRESIDENT HAVING TROUBLE. y ! _____ j By Telegraph—Pres*; Association—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. l “ j WASHINGTON, November 29. j President Harding is having trouble 5 - j with the old Congress, the tenure of •’ | which ends on March 4. and which he • v ! convened for a special sitting in the il 1 hope >of passing certain legislation j which ne could not hope passing j through the new Congress because of • 1 the reduced Republican majority. Tlie House of Representatives passC j c.d the Ship Subsidy Bill with one. or *- ; two vitiating alterations, but without »• j the amendment winch would- have denied the subsidy to any American j ship carrying liquor. The Bill was i passed by a small majority, more than j fifty Republicans joining the Democrats in voting “ No.” Meantime the I Bill cannot go to the Senate, because another admini strati no is already ( j there, which promises to disrupt that • | body, namely, the Anti-Lynching Bill, ; which aims to protect negroes in the e j south. It has already passed the is j House, but southern Senators declare e | that they will not permit of the meaa ’ I sure in the Senate, and have begun ! a filibuster, which they declare thev will maintain till March 4. making ail 1 legislative business impossible. The y filibuster means that Opposition Senai tors obtaining the floor will talk in >. relays for months. The closure is not applicable, and a vote is impose sible. -i ~ " 1 •