Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-08-19
BaIkiaess Grows from The
Tariff Situation.
Democrats Can't Answer Ques-
s--RepubIlcans Are Firm.
n Anxious TO Dodge Currency Bill
mexican Problems.

Washington, p. c., Aug 1s-(SpeciaD
As mid August proposition, the
Congress of the United States is a
study. 1t has become more so of very
recent days. The Senate baked good
and hard last week. Tariff had be-
come very onerous. Almost no progress
could be made 1t is no secret that the
Republicans have EN- about where
Trey want EN-. They have been talking
against time and there is little secret
about it, When Republicans ask tariff
questions, there seems to be no one on
the Democratic side able to answer
ihat makes Republicans mad and they
take up the debate strong and long
Let Us go home after the tariff bill
Is passed" SAYS the Republicans, and
we VIII be Sood. How about your cur
rency bill? Forget about that and let
us go. The situation got So hot fer
the Democrats that they held two ses-
sions of caucus in one day to debate
upon legislative program, and it was
said that the matter of a recess in the
autumn was also contemplated. Ii was
not as much as some folks thought
Anyhow President Wilson got word of
IT early in the day. He put his foot
down so hard against giving the OPP
position some more time to get their
BREATH and since then no Senate DEM
ocrat has been willing to say cut loud
that he ever favored a recess before the
currency bill was considered in the
Senate
Since then there has been d great
calm on both sides of the legislativel
chamber. The President has it i'll his
power to mold Congress in session He
talks about the currency bill in such
determined manner that Congress no
longer has any doubts that he will hold
Congress right here till he gets his cur
reney bill, willy-nily. So there are
long faces and many disconsolate ones
for the prospect of getting home be-
fore the late autumn is very remote
There are to be night sessions of the
Senate right away, so that the debating
time Il, the Senates working day will
be approximately doubled That puts AM
additional talking burden upon the Re-
publioans. who are smiling grimly and
allowing that they will debate the bill
only in a legitimate way. But that,
none the less means a whole lots of
time and even then it remains to be
seen whether the tariff law can be writ
ten upon the books before September
IL to August l.
Democrats have debated that curren-
cy bill in secret for more than a week
already and Heaven knows when they
will be through. There is an oriental
leisureness about it, don't-care- how |
long-it- takes air. The admnistra ton
currency bill is the target and recalci-
trant Democrats are whanging away a.
70 hai Sc Of Oh,
after they have talked themselves out
III caucus they won't feel so much like
kickins, their own heads off. if ever theI
currency bin gets before the House of
Representatives for action.
Want to Come to Maine.
Some Democrats of the House want
u get away for political campaigning.
A few of them have been invited to-
Maine. for instance, to take part in al
special Congressional campaign. Butt
the talking is so prolonged and prob
ably will continue indefinitely. so thesel
Democrats are not sure they can at
tempt TO help out their brethren in thel
Pine Tree state.
Senator Lodge said in debate the 9TH
CT day there were sufficient signed
statements about Mexican horrors be-
fore senators to paper the Senate cham
Der There is undoubted truth in hisl
statement But Senators generally arel
avcrse to emphasizing these. lest pub
lie sentiment be infiamed. Bloody and
brutal and barbaric are the murders,
that both sides have committed since
the revolution that overthrow Diaz be-
gan. But these are regarded as of sec
ondary consideration for Washington
They are only a 1.-THE of the murders
there would be if our soldiers should
cross the border and war were institut-
ed And war is the only alternative of
aggressive efforts on our part. That is
why older heads are giving less atten-
ton Just now to that phase of the sit
uation and are seeking some more pa
citic measures for bringing the ievolu-
ton to an end.