The Forrest City times., 1913-05-02
THIS IS MIDST PERSONAL AD- MiNIsTRATIoN THAT EVER
 HELD SWAY IN COUNTRY.
RULES WITH THE BIRCH ROD
Greater Legislative Acts of Present Congress Will Bear Name of Presl- dent Rather Than Their LesisIa- tive Champions.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

Washington.-It begins to look to- day as If all the greater legislative acts of the present congress will bear as titles the name of Wilson. If the Underwood tariff bill goes through both houses in the form in which it has been presented the Alabama lead CTS name will be eliminated from 1t by the public and it will be called the Wilson bill. Members of congress say this today, and they go much further by adding that currency reform and antitrust bills, no matter of what house or senate parentage, will bear the name of the man who today rules" from the White House.
 Senator Owen of Oklahoma, who is chairman of the new senate commit tee on banking and currency which will consider currency reform legisla- tion. already is preparing for the day when he with his fellow Democratic committeeman must meet the real pi- lot face to face in the presidents room Tn the senate wing.
 Democratic senators and representa- tives say that this is the most per sonal" administration which ever held sway in the country. These same sen- ators and representatives a few years ago objected strongly to what they called the big stick methods of Theo- dore Roosevelt MT. Roosevelt wield- ed his big stick at a distance and got results. Mir Wilson is taking the schoolmaster's way of close contact with his pupils and is using the birch rod in the privacy of the capitol lec- ture rooms
 Perhaps it Is too rough a way to put 1t to say that the birch rod is being used. for from all reports it would seem that the kindly persuasive meth cd has been adopted by the president. He lectures a bit, it is said, and his theme is The Duty to Ones Country although the theme has occasionally varied to The Duty to Ones Party" Presidents Course Approved. It is known in Washington that Mir. Wilson is getting hundreds of letters daily from all parts of the country up. holding his course of contact" with 1 the senators and representatives. In 1 the last ten years it has become ap parent in Washington from the letters which have been received at the White House and at the capitol that the ordinary American citizen has come to believe that congress, the sen ate particularly, has been a law unto itself rather than a law unto the country When Roosevelt rebuked congress and an attempt was made to rebuke him in return the White House received ten letters on commendation for its course to every one received | by the house of representatives
 This Democratic congress will un- dertake to revise the sherman laws to reform currency, to provide for ef- ficiency and economy in the depart ment service of the government, to pass some legislation looking to Phil. 1 ippine independence to change the 1 present course of conservation en l of high moment. On every one of these things MT. Wilson has said something, and it is therefore taken for granted here that he intends to say good deal more when the proper I time comes for the consideration of each piece of legislation He will | send messages certainly on currency reform, because he has said so. and probably on the other subjects These messages It is not believed he will ] read in person, but 1t is thought that he will go to the capitol after bills i have been prepared on each subject and sent to the proper committees and that he will give to the Demo cratic majority of each committee at close range his views of what form l the bills should take when presented to house and senate for majority con sideration.
 Will Cut Expenses.
 Men close to the administration hint that the president wishes to have his administration go down into history as one which accom- . plished an actual saving to the government of $l00.000. 900 a year It was the desire of Mr Wilson's prede- cessor in office that history should re cord a saving of this amount to his administration, but MT Taft did not succeed in doing any more than build ing and starting the machine which may turn out this big piece of econ omy. Historians therefore may give MT, Wilson the credit for accomplish ment but give MT. Taft the credit for making accomplishment possible. and writers of records may go back fur ther into history and give Theodore l Roosevelt a part of the initial credit. During the last three administra- tions there were efforts at economy. l MT Roosevelt started what was call. 1 ed the Keep commission which con cerned itself largely with trying to 1 find out where the leaks of service" were, and where best stoppers could 1 be put in. Mir Taft appointed a com. ! mission of economy and efficiency. 1 whose work it was, and still is. to 1 study the whole situation as regards l expenditures and service in all the