Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-08
The Seat Of Government
SweItering in Heat.
Many Orators Take Advantage
To Visit Sd Maine District.
Democrats Fused Up with Mexico,
Tariff and the Currency.

SWe1teflng heat enYeIopS the capital
seat by the Potomac but these are
times when the peoples officials are
fiocking to duty. The President is
sticking close to town. Members of
his cabinet are gradually rendezvous
ing here and taking up their work.
OF all government branches, only the
judiciary is still distinctly on vaca-
ton. 1t is almost five weeks before
the supreme court resumes its sittings,
but when the day comes for opening
| the October term there is every pros
pect it win find the executive branch
and the legislative branch pegging
/ away just as both We're last June
when the high court began its summer
recess.
| Many plans of the earlier months
/ are now in limbo. For instance there
! is President Wilson's projected voyage
| to the isthmus of Panama. He can
| not get time for it now, apparently.
| if he would. No one believes there
will be much of a hiatus between the
extra session of Congress and the
regular session. schedule to begin the
| first Monday in December, which is
Dec. l. To be sure most Representa-
| tives in Congress have had a right
smart vacation already. They hied
away after the tariff bill passed and
stayed away till the currency bill
came up for consideration. The cur
rency bill will pass the House in a
few days. after which note the fact
that your Congressman is quietly re-
turning home and will not be in Dash
ington much till along in November.
inn
groaning because they have TO work
so long and so hard for their 81 500
and perauisites, this year, will be
gradually moving out of town for a
short respite They can rest at home
or at an autumn resort while the
banking and currency committee
prepares the currency bill
| The exodus of orators to the ard
Maine Congressional District was
quite noticeable. Speaker Clark went
thither to deliver speeches and two
members of the Wilson cabinet have
done Notwithstanding of State Brs-
Ian and Secretary of Commerce Red
held. The Senate sent no orators be-
cause the Senate had plenty of bust
ness of its own to look after but the
House dispatched number of spell
binders of all political faiths to help
the Maine folks reason out who could
best be sent to Washington for the
remainder of Congressional term.
VIII President Wilson's optimism as
TO Mexico eventuate satisfactorily?
That query recurs much in Washing
ton and, indeed, is the leading fea-
ture of interest now as to Mexico.
For the Mexican situation has failed
to grasp general interest at the Cap
ital very long and become again of
secondary Importance. DIR. William
Bayard Hale came to Washington and
is understood to have brought opti-
mistic reports to the President. En-
Voy John Lind, still tarrying at Vera
Cruz, is reported to be cabling reas-
surlng words. Anyhow, the President
is getting confidence more and more
that the Mexican emoroglio win Yield
to treatment if only the American
people will wait in patience as they are
evidently disposed to do.
And the feeling grows that wariike
Mexico is not over formidable any
way and that the talk of a war there
being a 40-years war is all nonsense.
But the sway of a peaceful propa-
SdHud from THIS sue oI the D0ruer Is
highly attractive and if only it pre-
walls everybody of all larties in Wash
| ington will be gratified. If the imme-
date troubles are adjusted and some
thing like n stable government ~
eventually set up in Mexico, the ex-
ample set by the United States may
go far toward influencing the preiu-
diced Latin Americans that there is
sincerity in our professions The Pres
| ident's policy in Mexico, of course, is
| i'll continuation and extension of the
Latin American policy he announced
in the early part of his administration.
The continuity about il will give this
policy weight If only it succeeds
1t seems to be a half success now.
if reports prove true and Presidenx
Huerta is as good as his word in not
being a candidate for election. next
month. 1t is coming to be presumed
in this country that Mexico will hold
a presidential election in October or
thereabouts. but the problem with
President Wilson appears to be just
now to bring influences to bear which
can make an election IN Mexico feas-
ible. That may prove the very hard
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