The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-03-19

tended we discover that this world
is large one and that nature has no.
confined her wonders to America
alone.
Washington News Exchange Letter.
Washington, ID. c., March 13-Pres-
ident Wilson, contrary to the custom
of his predecessors, begins his days
work at 8 in the morning. He devotes
himself to his desk until II, and then
begins to receive callers and official
visitors. His new rule of referring
office seekers to the heads of depart
ments is not agreeable to the eager
applicants. But congressman and
senators are not included in the rule.
He would be a sturdy president, in
deed, who could prevent congress
men telling him of the supposed mer-
| it's of candidates from their respect
i've districts, Or refuse to listen to
senators whose advice and consent
to all appointments IS required by
the constitution.
In congress, and out, it is a fore
gone conclusion that the tariff will be
revised downward, and industries
must adjust themselves to lower
duties. The great fight of the special
session will be over selecting the ar
ticles to be reduced and the amount
of reduction. The demand for cur
rency reform also looms large. Mr..
Wilson may find it hard to restrict
congress to consideration of the tar
if alone.
There is no evidence of the Oft
predicted panic following complete
democratic control. Conditions are
in striking contrast to those at the
beginning of Clevelands second term
The treasury was then depleted of
gold, while now it's gold reserve is
preeminent among the treasures of
the world. Should the government
need money, for extraordinary emer-
gency, Secretary McAdoo has abund.
ant resources in the Panama canal
bonds which he may offer for sale.
But if intimations received are cor
rect, the banking and currency COM
mittee of the new congress is likely
to make report demonstrating the
urgency of action, and if it appears
that the new tariff will result in loss
of revenue, the demand for currency
legislation may become too insistent
to be ignored at the special session.
Appointments already made by the
president have given offense in high
quarters. A howl has gone up over
what seems policy of retaining re-
publicans in Office, and those luke
warm democrats who served under
the republicans. The reappointment
of Charles P. Neil, who was original
ly appointed by Taft, aroused the ire
of the South Carolina senators who
claim that Mr.. Neil made an inaccur-
ate report on southern conditions.
Senator Tillman, Familiarity known
as "Pitchfork Ben" in graphically de-
scribing the ravenous appetite of the
office-seeking element, uses this quo
tation from the bible, ''The wild asses
from the desert are athirst and hun
cry They have broken into the green
corn" He declared that this quota
ton exactly fits the case, and re-
ferred to the tramping down of the
corn, but expressed strong faith in
the herdsman in the white house.
The furry over the president de-
Ginning honorary membership in the
exclusive Chevy Chase club is over
1t turns out that no snub was intend
ed, but Mr.. Wilson prefers to pay his
own way and will probably become a
regular member in the usual way.
The most beautiful, as we'll as dem
ocratic set of girls that Washington
has known for at least three admins
trations, is the one composed of the
daughters of the cabinet officers who
last week assumed the leading posi-
ton in Washington society. But these
young ladies are not exclusively so
ciety" girls, as each of them devotes
at least a considerable part of her
time to art, music, literature or social
settlement work. 1t is said that Miss
Mona McAdoo, daughter of the secre-
tary of the treasury, is one of the
circle.