The Forrest City times., 1913-04-25
REFORM IN FINANCE
PRESIDENT BELIEVES BANKING AND CURRENCY LEGISLATION
 IS VERY MUCH NEEDED.
AS IMPORTANT AS TARIFF
Executive Is Anxious That Special sessicn of Congress Take Up the Subiect-PromPt Action Would Open Way fer Other Matters.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

1 definitely determined that President Wilson, believing banking and cur rency legislation to be Of as much i'm portance as the tariff bill is getting anxious that such legislation snail De enacted al the special se1sion in ad- dition to that affecting the customs. Ii the tarin bill shall make slow l progress after it has reached the senate and should not go to the White l House for signature or veto before the first of August, it is perhaps likely that MT Wilson would be willing that l the special session should come to an end and that there should be a recess of congress for at least six months. There is a growing feeling here that if the tariff bills go through quickly the president may ask that the cur rency legislation be taken up, but if it shall prove a long-dravn out tariff ses- sion the president may call another extra session to begin about October l. for the special purpose Of trying to reform the banking and currency laws of the country in accordance witn the views which his party holds as being best from the financial point of view
 Admittedly there has been any amount of nothing rnore or less than guess work about the probability Of currency reform being taken up at the extra session. The president has in- t!mated very clearly that he intends 10 send a special currency message 10 congress, and from the tone of his intimation it is taken to mean that he intends to send it in before the reg ular session begins in December. A good many Of the Democrats in con- gress do not want the currency touch cd until next winter, and the whole matter therefore depends largely upon whether the congressional leaders or the president have the final say so In the matter.
 Pave Way for Other Work. There are some of the Democrats in congress. cn the other hand. who urge that if tariff and banking and cur rencJ can be passed and put into law form before December next the long 7es1Sl'DAA bt 4AAht ttl4 Ncl4l Dt SieI44 Cs ti largely to work of so-callcd social leg 1 !slation and to the solving of the prob l lens of greater economy and eff 1 ciency in the administration of the l federal affairs At this extra session 1 there are three appropriation bills un- l der consideration. These bills failed of passage at the last regular session ! I,a ', y;., at the present moment in addition tc l the tariff The work Of economy and ! efficiency is bound up in the finances l of the country. but it seems likely to- day that the work of forming a bud get system and of reorFanizing the | departments on an economic basic { will not begin until next winter
 Now. it is said that President Will
 son intends, among other things, after | his economy and efficiency program 1 has been made known, 10 ask congress
 to revise the civil service laws so as 10 obtain greater efficiency in the civi
 service and. as the Democrats say
 further to safeguard il. The mem
 5ers of MT Wilson's party say thaI
 he is as firm a believer in civil service
 reform as Grover Cleveland was anC
 that in the time that has elapsed
 since the last Democratic administra
 ton to the present one there have
 been sufficient developments in the civil service 10 enable Mir Wilson tc
 judge rightly of where further i'm
 provement can be made.
 The Republicans in congress do not
 take this civil service reform program
 Of the Democrats very seriously They say that the service is on good basis i today and while the Democrats nay
 do q little something the real credit
 for the work must belong to the Re
 publican party The Democrats or
 their part say that the Republicans
 did only as much for civil service a:
 they were forced to do, and that under the Wilson administration greater i'm ] provement will bc made.
 Supreme Court Ovcrworked.
 The Supreme court of the United ] States is overworked Perhaps il
 should be put this way: A gooc many members of congress think l that the Supreme court is over
 worked There is said to be no com i plaint on the part of the justices that
 they are overburdened with labor, but
 the average of age in the membership
 of the court Is high and the judges
 have an immense amount to do
 though they bear it uncomplainingly
 and perhaps one of the reasons is
 ,hat they are opposed to having any
 change in the present syster7 made. a 1 change ~hicE has been urged ire i quertN and which may become a chief
 matter Of discussion. if not of action ' before the present congress ends it's
 days
 A proposal came from Senator Gore l of Oklahoma some little time ago that it might be wise to increase the membership of the court to II judges. His plan it seems, is finding some fa- yor. and President Wilson. who was consulted about it, has given atten- ton to the pleas in its behalf, but not yet has committed himself to the { adyisability of adopting the plan. Raf0rp this tirnp DrorCea1s bava