The citizen., 1913-04-04
WASHINGTON.
Legislative and Gem
eral Topics from
the Capital.
LsreclaI correspondent 10 rnn CIrIznNI
Washington, March 81, 1918.

W aShln1tOn, March 81, 1918.
If the Senate had not adjourned when
ii did to wal. Tor the extra session which
starts ON April 9TH, the people would have
nothing to talk about. AS it is the White
House is closed To all Office seekers and
those who are hunting Office will have
to wait until Congress meets again be-
fore they can have their ambitions graft
fed OF course. there will be many dis
appointments but the administration is
picking out the best men for the Jobs aud
will continue to do so from the start to
the finish.
The Senate cut out S4oo 900 worth Of
patronage that the Republicans had been
giving TO their helpers and which the
Democrats will have to do without. AT
least they will have to do so for a while,
because nearly all of the positions with
the exception of a few policemen who
were cut out by the House of Repre-
sentative moIe than a year ago, have
been put back into position and there
are as many now drawing money from the
House of Representatives as there were
under the Republican administration.
The chances are that the 10000 post
offices will be put back and filled by
Democrats, thus giving the Congressmen
something to do; otherwise, they will
have nothing at all but their patronage
in the House.
The policy of MI Wilson in chopping
| down expenses has been a Democratic
policy for many years, and will continue
unuer all Democratic Presidents, and you
can bet that when Wilson chops he
means TO chop down-he does not mean
to put them back the next year.
1t remains to be seen yet whether or
not he will put back the 10000 post.
masters who were installed under the
Civil Service by President Taft.
There are lots of places in the Senate
that have not yet been filed. but which
will be filled shortly after that body con
venes on the 9TH of April.
The Democrats need not look for
many appointments before the next ses-
sion OF Congress on April 9TH. There
will only be appointed those people who
are absolutely necessary TO carry on the
business of the country but wholesale
appointments will not be made until
Congress meets and the Senate can take
action on them in either Withholding It's
consent or not to the appointment made.
The President is every day studying
who is the best man for the position and
the people OF the country may be salts
fled that the President has made up his
mind after deliberate and mature COnsid
eratiOn but wilh>that kind of a President
in the White House YOU may be sure that
he will not in any Wav try to OverStep the
laws or try to do anything that is not in
Consonance with the habitua course OF
the Democratic party. The Democratic
party is IN safe hands SO long as Wood:
row Wilson is President of the United
States.
do not know what is going 10
happen so far as Bryan and Wilson ar
concerned | sincerely hope that they
will 60 along for the four years in the
same manner that they have commenced
this administration. but there is no tell
ing what Bryan will do, provided he is
not consulted on every consideration by
the President, not only in making his
appointments but IN doing the other
things that Mr. BRYAN thinks ought TO be
done.
Whatever Mr.. Bryan NAV do it may
be put down in black md white that the
President is going 10 do just as he
| pleaseS, or what it is Democrats duty
! 10 90 under the circumstances ana he Is
not gong to have ANYTHING to do with
Mr. Bryan's say SO in the matter. That
J is the kind Of man that President Wilson
is, and you can put it in your pipe and
smoke 1t that il is going to be his ad-
ministration and not Mr. Bryan's.
! will take occasion in these letters to
write up each member of the cabinet and
tell what he has done heretofore and
what he is going TO do while he is cab
met officer. CHAS. A. EDWARDS.