Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-29
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UASHINGTON. July 90.

1t looks as if it was going to be
finish fight between the President anu
Congress on the tariff. It looks &c.
but it probably won't be-
Just now. while the President is
smiling and in soft voice telling call
ers at the White House that the cur
rency bill will pass without difneulty,
| there's a row over 1t UP at the Capltoi
that YOU can almost hear from the
| White House back door In the
House. Democratic members of the
committee on banking and currency
are holding daily sessions consider
/ ing" the administra ton bill. rms Dill
was written by a stenographer, and Is
the Joint dictation of the President
the secretary of the treasury, Senator
| Owen. William jennings Bryan, Con-
gresham Carter Glass and a few
| others.
! When the Joint authors got the Dill
| fixed up to suit them, they sent IL 10
the House, with orders to pass 1t. Al
least. the President expressed mildly
the hope that Congress would find IN
it the essentials of the kind of a cur
/ rency bill that should be passed with
ont delay. 1t went to the committee
on banking and currency, and the russ
began.
That Fowler Debate Proposition.
There are twenty-one members oil
the committee on banking and cur
rency. and each of them has differ
ent opinion of the administration bill
and a different scheme for reforming
the currency Charles n. Fowler, oil
New Jersey, who was once chairman
of the committee, says they are al
wrong, and that the administrator
bill itself is too bad to talk about. lie
wrote the President a letter asking
Mr.. Wilson to come himself or seno
somebody else with authority 10 de-
bate the currency question and iearr
what a currency reform bill should De
AS vet the President has not ac-
cepted the Fowler invitation. II Is
said at the White House that he
proba bly, will not.
For three weeks or so, the banking
and currency committee has been
meeting almost every day. Ihat IL
the Democratic members have peer
meeting. The Republicans and FRO
gresslves got a resolution adopted
declaring that the committee should
consider the bill In open sessions
Since the resolution was ADOPTED
| there haven't been any meetings OF
| the committee.
when we decide what we're goine
to do about it. we'll let you know III
an open meeting" the Democrats told
the other members of the committee
And the daily sessions of the Demo-
cratic members have gone on. UP
to date, nothing has been done about
reporting the bill. In fact, the Dill
has hardly been talked about. Most
of the time has been taken up by the
committee members in calling each
other names.
Likely to Force Bryan Row.
Everybody is wondering. whether
the currency question isn't going TO
force a row between Wilson and
Bryan. The Star predicted several
weeks ago that it was likely to do
so. Then there was an all night
conference at the White House and
it was announced that the President
and his parapatetic secretary OF
State were wholly agreed on the
subject and both for the bill. Now
the question is up again.
Henry, of Texas, one of the radicals
on the committee, demands that the
| bill reported shall not only reform
| the currency but shall put shackles
on the money trust. Other members
think the same about it. Henry wants
to know what the Pujo Investigation
Twas for, if it's recommendations arr
not to be adopted, and is accusing
! some members of his own party o.
| being too close to the money trust
| The President, when asked about l
the other day, was very mild bu
firm in his remark that he didn
think the two subjects should bt
| mixed up.
This, ordinarily, would only meal
that the President and Henry don
agree 1t happens, though, that Hen
ry, of Texas, is generally looked upol
as Mr.. Bryan's spokesman in tn
House, and there Is reason for sup
! posing this theory to be correct. 81
folks are wondering whether Bryal
! is going to stand back of Henry ans
fight the President for putting int
the bill some splinters to annoy tn
money trust, or whether Henry i
Just now going it alone 1t is remem
bered that Henry was one of the tW'
| Texas members of Congress who wer
candidates for cabinet jobs and tina
he had Bryan's support for the place
The other man, Burleson, got the job
Ion
hasn't been to the White House a
often as some since March 4.
Tariff Overshadows Currency.
Some of the House Democrats sa.
the administration bill is Wal
street measure, devised merely t
| LII, Tho ~ nlrars nd mt AIMED Il