The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-09-26
HOW PRESIDENT WILSON
 DOES TT.
His Method of Dealing With Congress in Contrast With
 RoOseVeIt's Way.

If there is one thing that puzzle:
 the members of both houses of Con. gress more than another it is to ans
 wer the question: How has Presi- dent Wilson managed Congress SC
 easily up to the present."
 They are at last beginning to real l ize that they have been managed, not to say dominated by the president | with an ease that is little short o1 | miraculous and are themselves won l dering just how it has been done.
 The same wonder has been aroused l by political observers outside of Con ! gress also. A keen critic of political 1 affairs, who recently returned home 1 after an absence of several months | abroad, summed, the situation up. in | this staternent:
 | tsI left shortly after Mr. Wilson s 1 inauguration, when it appeared that l he had many obstacles before him.
 I returned to find the tariff bill about to be passed, the currency bill well on its way. through the House, the
 Dem mocratic party in apparent har-
 n1ony gen orally, and the Mexican sit
 nation not. so bad as I had thought. I see that MT. Wilson has accomplished
 these things, but am at a loss to un-
 derstand how
 . The keynote of the whole situation is President Wilson's unlimited capac-
 1ty, having once done his part to let
 the other fellow worry over how the rest of it is to be accomplish ed-and Congress Is tthe, other fellow
 Congress has done some worrying: but, finding that its howlings of ca lamity to come left MT. Wilson imper- turbable, has gone >grunnb1ingly about it's way and done what was expected of it; somewhat reluctantly, it is true but effectively, as MT. Wilson wants things done.
 Certain Democrats in the Senate de- IL tain provisions of the House tariff bill. The bill was the result of hard labor on the. part of the ways and means committee and absolute travail on the part of the Senate committee on finance.
 In giving 1t being the. House com mittee knew the pain of hard, rigid grinding labor. In rearing it to the point where, it could be presented to the Senate, the committee on finance sweated blood. And now the differ ences between the House and Senate settled in conference.
 The currency bill was even a hard CT proposition. The Glass bill lin gered for weeks in the House banking and currency committe and then oth- CT weeks in the democratic caucus of the House. ;sI It. met there stubborn resistance by a cOterie of democrats, who, headed by Chairman Henry of the rules committee. attempted to amend 1t.
 On paper the Henry faction loom ed strong and threatened trouble. It | was felt that William Jennings Bryan stood behind MT, Henry in his oppo- sition to certain phases of the Glass bill, nor did the Henry people do any | thing to discourage this belief. They did not say that MT. Bryan was with 1 them, but they never denied a report | that he was.
 When the caucus met Chairman Glass opened the proceedings with what turned out to be one of the greatest speeches delivered in Con- sress in recent years. Of course, the caucus proceedings are behind closed 1oors, but half an hour after the Glass speech was delivered every member of the caucus was talking about it.
 After explaining the bill Glass turn d on Henry and his supporters and ore them limb from limb, winding up lis speech by reading a letter from Secretary Bryan in which MT. Bryan old MT. Glass in the most emphatic erms that he was thoroughly in ac- ,ord with the Glass bill. The Henry melted away.
 But before this there had been in lumerable snarls from which the president. Chairman Glass and the ,ther members of the committee had | o eXtricate themselves. Senator Owen of Oklahoma, chairman of the Senate committee on banking and urrency kicked over the traces. That s, he gave out a, statement saying le could never agree with certain of the Glass bill.
 The day following the publication if this statement MT. Owen was invit- d to call on the president. Mir Oven called. Two days later he 4I- (ST
 Two days after MT. Owens visit to he president the newspaper cores asked MT. Wilson how he ad smoothed over MT. Owens oppo- Ition to the administration currency i'll. The president smiled and re- lied, with the best of good humor, nat really there had never been ny great differences and that they ad been settled in the most amicable 1