The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1910-05-31
WASHINGTON SITUATION
IS FULL OF ELECTRICITY
Congressional MaOrities Doubtful and National
Political Leaders Are Much
Worried.

nave reEained control in the senate
and continue to have some show of au.
thcrity in the house. But the ex-,
lperience of the winter has been that
! the insurgents in both legislative
branches have proven themselves ex.
ctedirgly tenacious fighters and the
Democrats exceptionally well-organized
allies. And just when the regulars
seemed to be getting things their own
way again, there has been an insur.
gent outbreak, which has captured an
other fortressf
! TIE President says his railroad rate
bill must be carried through to a
lfinality. He is certain of final vote
in the house, although the uncertainty
as to whether the Democrats and the
insurgents would vote ont the provision
for n commerce court stood out prom
inently there, prior to Tuesdays YER
dict one that bill. But the President
was we'll aware that the senate had
approved of the commerce court and
therefore he could have basis for
fight in conference, whatever happened
in the house. The, readjustment of the
fractional differences in the senate now
Seem TO assure a final vote there upon
lis railroad bill, although the Demo
Gratis and insurgents have emasculated
IL.
Right on the heels of that situation,
however, follows the inquiry whether
the President will care to push his
cmasculated railroad bill through the
conference and stand a wrangle there
and subsequently in the senate and
i house which, from present appear
: anecs, would keep congress in session
/ for the best part of month. Hence
, il may be that the poor old rail bill,
! which represents the President IS most
earnest efforts to carry out the poll
, cies Of the Roosevelt administration,
4 may be filed away on shelf during
t the summer and put over till the short
et session next winter. Such action would
Q undoubtedly mean the death of the
t rail bill for it could hardly be resus.
r citated during the short session.
? This uncertainty will hardly be
: cleared up for two or three weeks yet
e but there are other uncertainties. One
! of them is the Postal Savings Bank
! Bill which is having half dozen kinds
of trouble in the house. 1t is now be-
q lievsd that bill can be reported OFT
of the house postoffice and postroads
J committee. However, it will by no
. means be the kind of bill which the
senate enacted. The President, IT is
claimed, would never sign the kind OF
= q bill that the senate passed. But
. there is much uncertainty as to whether
: the house will pass the kind of a pos
= tai savings bank bill that the house
a postoffice committee will report ana
!. Furthermore there is doubt and uncer
: tainty whether the senate will ever
q approve of postal savings bank bill
= such as the house committee will re-
!. port. The trouble is chiefly over the
p proposed impounding of deposits il
those banks so that the money shal
v not flow away to New York and the big
= financial centers. The Westerners il
l. senate and house are determined tina
i. the money shall be kept in the local.
n ties where it is deposited. The Presi
is dent and some very substantial judges
q of such matters reason that any sucl
Y restrictive legislation would be ex
II ceedingly unwise.
D. Hence the uncertainty as to whethe
( the house, if it can be persuaded II
IS enact a postal savings bank bill afte
l. caucns, perhaps, and certainly afte
II most strenuous efforts to line up thu
% Republican members, will not favo
h putting the senate bill and the hous
bill away on a conference shelf 70
80 consideration at the next or short ses
Is sion of congress. To be sure that woul
70 mean in the end no postal savings BAN
a bill at all, but action to that stag
y would indicate that the Republieal
< party had tried earnestly to carry ,ou
n the platform pledges and would affor
I'd che orators something to talk about i
TO the campaign.
le 1t is significant, in the midst of S
SO much uncertainty, that the last of tn
IN big appropriation bills-the Sundr
IN Civil Bill-has been reported to til
10 house of representatives and is to
speedily considered there. It will r,
er quire week or two to dispose of tina
9, big budget and before it is disposed o
III the leaders will advise with the Pre-
n ident and it may be determine
~ whether it is wise TO attempt anythin
is with the Postal Savings Bank Bill
~ Some folks at Washington reason tha
y about the time that Sundry Civil Bi
81 goes kiting through the senate, theI
- will be big set for speedy adjourn
M ment ana that the President will Al
-, iquiesee in such an outcome. as the MOI
81 desirable of two unsatisfactory eond
~ tions. But at best that can not con
ne till the end of May and perhaps not {
20 early as that, The wise men or col
evI gress and of the administration GEE
eyy orally are scratching their heads ovt
he the problem. They hope to be able
solve it wisely and there is more
Is. less confidence in Republican eircl
an that they will be successful in the
ms efforts.
re -4s-'-
in. BOTHA HEADS
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