Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-05-16
IF PRESIDENT SUBMITS CURREN-
CY REFORM MEASURE THE SEES
SION WILL HOLD ON THROUGH
JULY AND AUGUST.
PRESIDENT WILL INSIST
PRESIDENT ALREADY HOLDING
CONFERENCE WITH DEMOCRAT
&c LEADEDS TO SECURE II POS
SIBLE UNITY OF ACTION.
Especial STAFF Correspondent

han a year of Congress-. with an au
tumn interim Of two or three months. is
now the legislative perspective. That is
what President Wilson's word the other
day about a currency enactment means.
Law makers no longer cherish the hope
of a get away by July. There never was
any good reason why they should have.
The extra session, beginning with the
democratic administration, is to have
two features. On the heels of tariff re
form is to come currency reform. The
President believes the latter essential.
III would found his administration, as it
wre, upon those two measures.
Will the President get the two meas
ures? That question will now be asked
with much frequency. There will be va
rying answers. The safest one, with all
the information available, is that he will.
OF tariff revision there is now, of course.
no uncertainty. 1t has been written
much and accurately, that the Under
wood bill will pass, the Senate with
slight notifications. A few changes in
the cotton schedule. some adjustment on
agricultural products. free cattle, per
haps; lower rates on dyes and pigments.
possibly the elimination of the three
year clause on l cent sugar, and other
like amendments, will comprise the sen
ate's contribution to the cause of tariff
revision.
The senate will be aweary when this
has been done. 1t may seem like the lab
Ors of a mountain and the Scampering Of
a mOuse-twO, or, probably. three months
to achieve such changes. And yet they
may mean much in the ultimate judg
ment on the Underwood law and not a lit
tie to diversified industry throughout the
land. There is to be painstaking inquiry
by the Senate, as there has actually been
by the House. Manufacturers are virtu-
ally getting Il hearing before the subcom-
mittees on Finance. even though the pro
ceedure be not dignifed by tina nam
Their cause is to be presented thought
fully in the senate. The ease will not be
made up in this last legislative court
without the fullest argument.
There are not as many aged men in the
senate, as of yOre, and the protests
against prOlonging the session Will not
be as strong. And yet when the next
Two Or three months of tariff are up,
there will be tremendous senatorial
clamor in the presidents ears TO LEI Us
go home" Unless exceptional conditions
arise he will not likely yield to il. Cur
rency is a more difficult topic 10 handle
than tariff. The legislators do not IN
derstand il as well az they do tariff and
Congressional ignorance on tariff is re
allv amazing. But there are democrats
who have given currency conditions much
study and the effort of the democratic
house i'm two months will be TO evolve Il
more or less mature currency measure.
President Wilsn is looked OH to blaze
the way. If there is possibility of united
democratic action on currency 1t VIII DC
bv such procedure supplemented by eN-
tensive conferences at the White House.
AS a matter of fact these conferences
have been on with the president for weeks
1t is generally expected that an admins
tratiOn currency bill will result. when
II has been fashioned as best the Iresi
dent and Representative Carter Glass ito
he chairman of the Banking and Curren-
cy COmmlttee) can. Will ""'N' \"
other democrats in both branches of con
gross. this House Currency Committee
will meet i'm Judgment upon its Prov
siOns.
The next step will be the ordeal OF the
Democratic caucus of the House. 1t Will
,;kely be a caucus of Il weeks Duration.
Rv that time the sentiment. alike OF the
c~onntrv and of Congress. regarding the
hill should be tolerably apparent. Pre-
snuablv the House itself will ratlfy
what the committee and the president
opd the democratic caucus have wrought
Tho caucus debate and the House debate,
however, will serve educational mus
And the progress of the currency bill to
tho senate will be very like the progress
80 tho tariff bill. which has just gone
there.
Whatever doubts may now exist about
Tho enactment of a currency law III this
.oss;on of Congress are with the Senate
whose doubts are to be measured by the
.uooosS or failure of the president and
~. uonse i'm framing an administration
measure. If they have ready, by the
80 tho Senate is through with tariff, a
fo;rly acceptable currency bill the sen
-. will pass it. though senators pro
-. ro,nbly at the lack of consideration
sor their personal comfort during a hot
washington summer.
N~Doc,hlicans will not necessarily 0p-