REPUBLICAN PARTY MAY BE DISRUPTED
OPENING OF CONGRESS IMPORTANT PROBLEMS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright WASHINGTON. Monday. Congress will be opened on Monday with one of the most important legislative programmes before it. Ttie prospect of internal party differences may seriously delay the necessary action in many pressing problems.
The question of unseating the Sen-ators-elect. Mr. Vare, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Smith, of Illinois, ageist
whom charges of expending great sums of money to secure their - } ctions have been made, may disrupt the Republican Party. If these are unseated the Republicans will have 46 members against an Opposition of 47 Democrats and one Farmer-Labour member. The insurgent Mid-western and Western senators, moreover, have announced that they will take extreme measures to force through their programme of radical agricultural legislation. The major questions demanding Congressional action are farm relief, the Mississippi flood control, the return of enemy alien property, the unification of the railway systems, the disposal of the Government-owned merchant marine, and the naval programme.—A. and N S,
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 219, 5 December 1927, Page 8
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