Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-03-25
WILL
MOVE SLOWLY
MAY NOT MAKE MANY APPOINT
MENTS TILL AFTER EXTRA SEES.
SION-MUCH MAY DEPEND ON
OUTCOME OF TARIFF BILL.
WASHINGTON RATHER INDIFFER-
ENT TO WAR SITUATION ALONG
MEXICAN BORDER-SENTIMENT
OF COUNTRY OPPOSED TO WAR.
Especial STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March "a
Texans are lingering at the capital,
though the extra session of the senate
has adjourned and the extra session of
congress is a little more than two
weeks away. Some of the Texas CON
gressmen are yet s%ojourning here, exc
numerous aspiring democrats DESTROYS
of knowing their prospects for a place
on the salary roll. But several mem
bers of the cabinet nave linked away
including Secretary of State Bryan,
Secretary of the Navy Daniels and Sec
rotary Of Agriculture Houston, the
TeXas-MiSsOuri member of the presi-
dents official family. At the same time
there has come a lull in the news activi-
ties of the new administration.
The Texas congressman. rather elated
over assurances that they would CON
troll the post Office patronage whether
they were original Wilson men or not,
are coming to realize that Postmaster
General Burleson can not be compelled
to forward the nominations to the white
house until he gets good and ready.
While the old crowd may pick out their
own candidates for pOStmasters, it may
be made desirable from their standpoint
to exercise some discretion. at least not
TO discriminate against democrats who
were Mr.. Wilson's friends, because Post
master General Burleson may think it
preferable to let some republicans serve
a little while longer.
All the evidences multiply that Presi-
dent Wilson does not propose to be
hurried about bestOwing patronage.
Representatives in the house can just
as well concentrate their minds upon
supporting the measures of legislation
that the president wants and in doing so
can best conserve their own patronage
interests. Whether that be 50 or not,
indications certainly are that a whole
lot of the plumS upon the federal tree
will not have been shaken off until after
congress has gotten well started with
the programme of legislation intended
for the extra session. beginning in April.
The Texas senators who have been
doing what they could to bring about
some relief for the numerous applicants
for office from the Lone Star state have
had to throw up their hands. With the
adjournment Of the extra session Of the
senate, it is announced at the white
house Offices that President Wilson in
tends to make almost no nominations
till after the extra session Of congress
begins. He wants time between now and
then for the consideration of the tariff
revision bill and for other pressing sub
jcctS of interest to the country.
As already indicated in dispatches to
the Herald, both the Texas senator's fare
well in the reorganization of the upper
legislative branch" AS chairman of the
great judiciary committee. Senator
Culbcrson has exceptionally important
duties. Nominations of all the federal
Judges which a president makes, go to
that committee for report before the
senate undertakes to confirm them. The
power of the committee in that conncc-
ton is very great, as many judicial nom
nations are made in the course of a
year. But that committee will handle
bills. amendming the Sherman anti
trust law, if such amendments are at
ltempted during the Wilson administra-
ton. Other legislation, some of the
most important which before
congress, is first considered in the ju-
dietary committee. But Senator Cul-
bcrSOn's place on the appropriations
committee is almost equally important
for there are considered many matters
that affect expenditures in Texas.
Senator Sheppard will have part in
the framing of one appropriation bill
each year, thai OH agriculture, as he be
comes a member of the committee on
agriculture and forestry. 1t is a de
Sirable committee for Il new sen
ator. especially for a senator from
such Il large agricultural state as Texas.
The state has no member on the fl
nance committee. which frames tariff
legislation, but in the house is Repre-
sentative Garner. as a member Of the
corresponding committee on ways and
means. The fifteenth district congress
man is proving himself a very diligent
student of tariff problems and is very
active in looking out for the interests of
the home state in the forthcoming tariff
bill.
Washington is very Indifferent to the
fighting developments on the Mexican
border. There is so much aversion
throughout the country to any entangle-
ments with the republic to the south and