The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1913-05-17
PRESIDENT coNsuLTs NOTED Ex-
PERT REGARDING REFORM
IN THE CURRENCY.
GIVES SUBJECT CLOSE STUDY
Financial Reform VIII 30 Made =
Party Measure and Put Through
Much az the Chief Executive
Wants IL.
BY GEORGE CLINTON.

| the country on the subject of currency
! reform. He has learned that most of
the leaders OF the Democracy in con-
gress have come pretty close to an
agreement as to the principles which
should govern in trying to solve salts
! factorily the currency reform problem.
In his message TO congress on the
subject it will be found that the pres
ident has definite ideas Of his own
| on the financial subject. and that these
thoughts of his will be nodded with
those OF the party leaders and the
| finance experts into what Mr.. Wilson
thinks will be proper measure to
meet the requirements OF the national
occasion.
| II seems to be taken for granted In
| Washington that the currency bill will
cause more debate even than the tar
iff bill, for past experience has shown
that In dealing with anything concern
ing finances there are about as many
views as there are men in both houses
of congress. Currency, however. will
be made party measure and 1t will
be put through the house under a rule
limiting debate, while over in the
senate It must. like other bills, run
the gauntlet OF long discussion.
President Studies Hard.
IL has taken the president some
time to get into compact form his
views on the currency problem. He
underwent a course OF study on the
tariff to reinforce the knowledge he
/ bod or On A Gnhippf
through his lifetime of study. The
tariff study no sooner through than
he took up the currency. and side by
side with the currency he began study
ing the Panama canal tolls question.
with view to determining II his first
thought on the matter that our coast
| wise vessels should be admitted to the
canal toll free. possibly might not be
erroneous
With the study of these two sub
jects he had to dig into the California
Japanese controversy. and it took all
of his time, and perhaps some OF his
strength, to arrive at conclusions.
Washington people say that burning
the midnight OIL when he was
boy for the purpose OF acquiring
knowledge has fortified Mr.. Wilson to
continue to burn the oil now that he
is president n
Not long ago on the free tolls ques-
ton the president said some things
! which made II appear he held the view
that this country owed duty to It's
treaty obligations, or supposed obliga-
tons. Instantly it was taken for
granted that he agreed with Elihu
Root and some other men not OF his
own PARTY ON the subject A change
OF mind may come to him, for he has
admitted that I'm this international af-
fair, which may bring minor troubles
in its wake, he has tried to keep an
open mind until the last argument on
each side has been advanced and I'M
til he has been given time to think on
the subject deeply.
From everything that Mr.. Wilson
says in his rather intimate talks with
Washington newspaper men, one thing
stands out prominently. He has been
at It" in hard study OF pretty nearly
! everything which has come before
his administration for action His
friends say that he knows when he
has studied enough and that he also
knows when worthy argument. pro
| and con. have been ended The par
ticularly sharp" thing about this
study and argument-hearing habit OF
! Mr.. Wilson is sharp seemingly to
senators and representatives who are
after patronage.
With the otfice-Seekers.
| In the Washington opinion, Mr.. Will
son. in most of the office-seeking cases
which he already has decided, has
given decisions with comparatively lit
tie regard to the feelings Of the men
who were aligned on the side which
did not appear to him to have great
weight for Its pleas for preference.
Party men say that In some instances
the administration may have hurt It.
self temporarily In cases like this, but
from what one can judge from what
the president himself says about these
| things indirectly, there seems to be
little fear in his mind that he is go
| ing to hurt himself when he says his
final word on the form which legisla-
| ton SnOulu Jake, OF WHAT oHOuiu ue
done in cases like that of canal tolls
( which occupies somewhat higher
plane than that on which mere legis-
,ation rests.
! Old Lines Are Broken.
There is not in congress today In
either house one man of any party
who does not claim that he is pro-
gressive, or perhaps It were better to
say progressive without the adjective
"a" before II, because there is a new
Progressive party and any man OF
another party who would say directly
that he is a progressive might be mis-
understood. In fact. when congress
men do speak Of their being pro-
| gressive, unless they are members OF
party of that name, they usually
] couple their words with an explana-
ton that while progressive they are
not Progressives.
Senators and representatives when
they are talking freely. and for publ
| sotto, nth thatr N n N, "a atta rhpd aay