U.S. POLITICS.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19175, 5 December 1927, Page 9

U.S. POLITICS.

OPENING OF CONGRESS. HEAVY LEGISLATIVE PROGRAMME. (BI CABLE—PHZ6S ASSOCIATION— COPIBIQHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received December 4th, 5.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, December 3. Congress opens on Monday with one of tho most important legislative programmes before it, and tho prospect of internal Party differences, which may seriously delay necessary action on many pressing problems. Tho question has been raised as to whether Senators-elect Vare, of Pennsylvania, and Snith, of Illinois, should take their seats, as charges had been made against them of expending great sums of monoy to secure election, and this may disrupt tho Republican Party. If those two arc not allowed to take their seats, the Republicans will have an opposition of only forty : seven Democrats and one Farmer and a Labourite. Insurgent Mid-Western and Western Senators, moreover, have announced that they will take extreme measures to force through their programme of radics' agricultural legislation. Major questions, on which Congressional action is demanded, are farm relief, Mississippi flood control, the return of enemv alien property, unification of the railway systems, disposal of Government merchant marine, and the naval •programme.