- The period between election and installation must always be
a trying time for the President of the United States. It is the season of place-hunting, a form of recreation which is mercifully unknown in England. From a common-sense point of view it would seem that no continuity of policy is possible with an administrative " General Post " following each change of President, but there is no getting past the barrier of the American -Constitution, and the autocrat of the tabernacle—as - some one once irreverently described the President— must suffer with the rest. It is reported that Senators and Representatives and members of the Republican National Committee are waiting in Washington like hungry wolves for the future holder of power and dispenser of patronage. And the issues before the present Congress are of such importance that Mr. Hoover—who thought to escape his pursuers by his well-timed visit to South America—has been compelled to return and spend ten days in the -capital, nominally for the purpose of reporting on his trip to President Coolidge. He may yet have to redeem his promise to hold a special Session for the long standing question of farm relief. If so (says the well- . informed correspondent of the Times) the tariff-mongers will play fast and loose,, and we may even see such a general upward revision of tariffs as to reduce America's whole tariff policy to absurdity.
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