Abstract

The Opening of Congress

The article presents information on various developments related to the U.S. Congress. The new Congress which has just assembled presents many hopeful signs. There is an atmosphere of freedom and activity at the Capitol which breathes of health, sanity, and a return to the normal consciousness of the U.S. political processes. For two years Congress has lived and spoken under the shadow of a war psychology warped and perverted into the channels of emotionalism by an intellectually dishonest Administration. The test, so far as the new Congress is concerned, will come about very shortly, over the matter of a peace-time Espionage Law. The Espionage bill will be a test, as well, of a political issue within the Congress which bids fair to travel far before it is through.