POLITICS IN AMERICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1922, Page 5

POLITICS IN AMERICA.

WEEK OFF ELECTION. HOUSE AND SENATORS. DEMOCRATS MAY GAIN. By Telegraph.—Proas Assn.--Copyright.. Received Nov. 2, 8.50 p.m. Washington, Nov. 2. With the regular Congressional election a week off the political campaign is now at the crucial stage. A complete new House of 435 representatives and a third of the Senate of «2 Senators will be chosen. The Republicans now have a majority of eleven in the Senate and the House of Representatives. There is an anomaly in the American system of Government by which the president, after two years in office, can see his party defeated in Congress. ExPresident Wilson was caught in that predicament, the Republican Congress elected in 1918 defeating the Versailles Treaty. The general feeling among observers is that the Democrats will gain approximately fifty in the House, while the Republicans will gain one or two Senators or hold their own. There are 132 Democrats, three hundred Republicans, and three Independents in the field. The most important members of President Harding’s Cabinet —Messrs. Hoover, Hughes and Weeks—are campaigning on behalf of prominent Senators and representatives in endangered districts. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.