Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-07-25
WORKS OPPOSES
 TARIFF INFLUENCE Senator From California De nounces Efforts of Presi-
 dent Wilson.
REGARDS HIM HIGHLY
But Says Constitution Gives to Senate and House Sole Right to
 Make Laws.

Washington, July 2l.-On the floor , of the senate today. Senator Work $, of California. denounced the actions of President Wilson, for influencing tariff legislation, ill the summing up of a speech on the tariff bill AoW pending before the Senate.
 ."Fhe tendency of latter day politics i is to eXalt the executive at the eN- pense of the legislative and judicial power of the government, and make the President the master and ruler of them all, and the master and not the servant of the whole people said the Senator.
 Tt is an warranted and danger out tendency. Every public official, however, exalted, is only the servant of the people and should at all times be subject to their control and sub servient to their will in conformity to the Constitution and laws of the country and each department of the government. if it's institutions are to be preserved. must be kept within the limitations of it's powers as fixed by the Constitution.
 eff this bill is passed it will not be by the willing and voluntary con sent of majority of this body. It will be the result, in part, of outside influence that should never enter in- to the deliberations or acts of Con- gress. The Constitution provides:
 All legislative powers herein
 granted shall be vested in a Con-
 gress of the United States which
 shall consist of a Senate and
 House of Representatives.
 That instrument further provides that the executive power shall be vested in the President of the United States of America. The President is also made Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy. 1t is further pro- vided: "1He shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the states of the Union and recom- mend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and eXpedient. This is the only pow CT vested in the President in respect of the making of laws. There is no warrant ill the Constitution for his participation in the formation or passage of laws or the exercise Oi any influence on legislation beyond that of recommending to the consid- eration of the law making power such measures as he shall judge nec- essary or expedient.'
 Here the Senator said that his views coincided with those injected into the Democratic platform of 1904 and quoted from the declaration of principles drawn by the Democratic party at that time.
 In concluding his speech, Senator Works said:
 "I have approached this subject with reluctance and purely from a sense of duty. I expressed similar views during the last administration I have the greatest respect and es- teem for the present incumbent ot the great office of President of the United States as l had also for his predecessor in office I believe in the integrity and sincerity of his pur- pose to serve the people and the country to their very best interests. |. But, sir, this cannot deter me from expressing my views on a question so serious and far reaching in it's con- sequences. It makes the situation only the more alarming that one of such high ideals and patriotic purposes should do anything that can reason ably be construed to be~a usurpation of power or an infringement of the Constitution that may sometime be appealed to as precedent by one lace conscientious and DatriOtiC"