Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-25
Washington
' Y LETTER
BY H. g. WALKER
CONGRESS HAS DECIDED

Star Bureau,
Metropolitan National Bank Bldg
WASHINGTON. June rs.

WASHINGTON, June 25.
After reading the newspapers and
getting letters from home, Congress
has about decided to pass the Pres
ident's currency bill without making
much trouble about 1t. Not that this
sentiment is unanimous by any
means, but that there are not enough
Democrats ready to rebel on the sub
ject to give promise of anything in
the way of a real fight
1t must be admitted that Congress
does not particularly like the Pres
dents ways of doing things, and
isn't over enthusiastic, as a rule,
about the things he wants done.
Despite this. the feeling Is general
that the easier way to get along with
Wilson is to Join his side of the fight,
and the way for the currency legisla-
ton promises to be cleared of,
obstacles almost as thoroughly as
was the way of the tariff revision.
It's Meaning to Congress.
While Representatives and Senators
reading of his currency message the
other day. and applauded at the end
of the speech, the address as 1t read
III the newspapers didn't carry to the
public exactly the same meaning that
it carried to members of Congress.
As the congressman listened to the
speech, they interpreted the meaning
of 1t to be something like this:
81 have come here to read you my
message in person, not particularly
because want you to hear my voice,
but because in this way what have
to say will receive more attention
from the folk back home who sent
me here and who sent you here. /
am asking you to do the work the
folk sent you here to do, and which
they want done, and done now. /
know the weather is hot and that by
staying here all summer some 4
you may get tired and sick; some of
you may even sicken and die, but
you took the job with all that went
with it, and this is part of the work
you're being paid to do. If you don't
do 1t, the folk at home are going to
be disappointed in you, and maybe
they'll send somebody else the next
time"
That's about the way the speech
sounded to Congress, and tire way
most of the congressman think the
President intended it to sound to
them. Also, after thinking it over,
most of the congressman have made
up their minds that the best thing
they can do is to stay ION the job
and do what the President wants
done.
They Fear to Dodge.
What are you going to do?' asked
one congressman today. This man
Wilson has got the thing all figured
out. He called a special session to
revise the tariff. If he had left it
over to the regular session, he knew
the subject would have got cold,
and would have been mixed up with
so many things that it wouldn't have
got the attention he wanted 1t to get.
Now that the tariff bill is perfectly
safe, he's given Us this job of re-
vising the currency, and there isn't
any way for US to dodge 1t, if we
wanted to. We haven't any other
work, and can't make any excuses
for not doing it,"
AS matters now stand, it looks as
though the special session of Congress
would last until pretty nearly the
time for the regular session in De-
cember. In the regular session, there
will be the usual time-killing with
appropriation bills and other routine
measures, with which the President
will probably interfere very little, as
the tariff and currency will be out
of the way. Congress will want to
adjourn early next year. so that the
members can get home to get into
the campaign, and the President will
probably let them go. Then will
come the second regular session. af-
ter election, ending March 4, and the
wiseacres who have been studying
the Presidents methods expect to see
him call the new Congress into spe-
cial session at once and put up to
that body some other big question to
be handled by itself, as the tariff
has been, and as currency will be.