The Prescott daily news., 1913-04-02
TALES OF FRICTION BETWEEN PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF
 CABINET ARE FALSE.
RESENTED IN WHITE HOUSE
Facts Show Mir. Wilson and Secretary Bryan Were In Complete Accord Concerning Chinese Loan and Sen ate Control.
By GEORGE CLINTON


 go to the White House offices to learn that there is resentment there because Of the stories which occasionally float through the country and which inti- mate, even if they do not directly state, that there is friction between MT. Wilson and this member or that member of his cabinet over some i'm portant legislative matter The re- sentiment is of a mild kind, because the men close to Mir Wilson in off clal work seem to have made up their minds that such stories are bound to get into circulation, even if there be for them no foundation in fact
 In Che stories which have been printed here and there of discord in the cabinet, Mir Bryan has figured more than any other cabinet member It is perfectly apparent that the White House and state department feel badly about what the friends of the president and the secretary say IS complete misapprehension of facts It happens that MT Bryan was in the
 
 statement concerning the Chinese loan. At once a story was published in quite a number of places that MT, Bryan had not been consulted about this department matter, and that therefore there would be ructions as soon as he came back. There were no ructions when he returned.
 Truth About Chinese Matter.
 Here Is the story of this particu- lar matter. Five days before MT. Bry- an left Washington to go west the Chi- nese loan matter was gone over in detail by the president and the sec retary of state Mir Wilson wrote his message to the country on the sub ject. but MT. Bryan aided in the writ ing and sanctioned every line of it.
 After the president and the secre- tary had prepared the outline of the document it was submitted to the cab inet and there discussed, then MT. Wilson and MT Bryan went over it again, and both agreed that it was in proper form to be given to the coun- try. MT. Bryan went away, and while he was away the Chinese loan mes sage was given to the press. It might have carried with it MT Bry- ans signature in addition to that of Mir. Wilson $, .or he could have put his hand to something to which he had already given his heart.
 In dispatches from Washington pri- or to the time that the senate Demo cratic caucus met and named Senator Kern of Indiana as the leader and ap- pointed a steering committee to as- sign members to committees, it was said that the progressiyes would be in control of the caucus of the steer ing committee and Of the committee themselves. It was also said that certain conservative senators of long service would be made chairmen of important committees because of their seniority right. but that the commit tees themselves, or those of any par ticular legislative importance, would be controlled by the progressives, and that the chairmen, no matter how con- servatlve they might be, would ind themselves overruled by their progress sive fellow committee members.
 Proeressives in Control.
 Since these committees were ap- pointed. although it was made perfect ly clear in advance that seniority would demand the giving of certain chairmanships to conservatives, 1t has been held in some places that the giving of these chairmanships to the old timers means that the conserva- tives have defeated the progressives and are in control of the Democratic majority in the senate of the United States. Senator Kern, the Democrat ic leader. when asked about the mat ter. said: If there is any doubt as to the control of these committees, analyze the membership" An andy sis shows that the progressives, or at least men who have agreed to be pro gressives, and in whom confidence Is placed, are in control Of every com mittee of importance in the senate ot the United States.
 lp WasnlH8toH ie hoS OsSh HA~ from some quarters that 1t is under stood President Wilson refused to take any part in the contest in the upper house between extreme conserv- ativism and progression. The progress siye leaders called on MT. Wilson at the White House proper and spent hours with him going over the senate situation. They outlined their plans, including the plan to placate the se- nlor conservative Democrats by giv- ing them the chairmanships which length of service accorded them. and their plan to put enough progressives
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