Left wing elements have immedi rely seen the danger of a divided House of Representatives and have begun to consolidate their ranks. Mr. Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York, -summoned the nation's outstanding progressive leaders to Washington for a meeting next week. Their object will be a coalition porting the New Deal and the Pres dent.
'Mr. LaGuardia today called 'Tuesday election a "decided set-bad President Roosevelt was less specific in his comment on the Republican victories. A Hyde Park spokesman said the President was "feeling very happy and very. grand.'
Mr. Herbert Hoover, former Repub-can President, called upon the conservative Democrats to join with the Republicans to halt the New Deal in 1940.
"The election returns indicated considerably less than a landslide for the Republicans, but the opposition has been awakened and may encourage a considerable bloc of conservative Democrats to bolt the New Deal.
'A rebuff from the conservative Democrats and an alliance between the New Deal left wing and the so-called radical minor parties might lead the President to seek a third term, it was believed.
Standing of New House Republicans gained two additional seats in the House in late returns. Three House seats remained doubtful, two in California and one in Michie gan, but Republicans were leading in two of these races.
The composition of the new Con-Jsress based on latest returns was:
House Senate or Progress a Undeeldea 5 The Republican advances swept across the northern half of the country virtually regardless of state lines, The New Deal retains a majority of about 100 votes in the House, but the liberal bloc has been almost erased and many of the Democratic votes are anti-New Deal.
Observers believed the results promised to strengthen the combination of Republicans and conservative Democrats which would block New Deal measures in the next Congress, The Republicans have gained ce trol of fifteen state delegations to Congress.—United Press.
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