Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-08-13

HOUSE SESSIONS
ARE NOW LOOKED FOR NACA-
TONERS ARE COMING BACK 30
THE WORK. SPEAhERS GAVFL
WILL BE BUSY
CABINET STCCTMBED TO rEMPTA-
TION OF MOUNTAIN AND SEA
SHORE MORE THAN ANY OTHER
BODY IN WASHINCTON.
Especial STAFF Telegram. J

men Of the popular branch have been
hiking back to town They gree their
heat jaded colleagues. who, perforce, have
endured the Washington summer. with
! buOyancy. It is like a coming together
again. Speaker Clark's gavel IS poised
! for action. He becomes an official per
SOnagc of some note again for a little The
August tourists find it worth while t.
stray over toward the House end of the
capitol.
democratic caucus. of some days pos
Sibly.> will be followed by a session of the
House. full fledged sessions. too. for some
days and if in the meantime the senate
rises T. its tasks and passes the tariff
bill, there Will be a great feeling of up
lift some fag ends of patronage are yet
Iundsposed Of and the returning repre-
Sentatives will want to know what about
the p0Stmasters yet to be appointed, and
Il fat plum. Of other variety. that may be
ripening for the benefit Of constituent.
COMFORT IN NUMBERS.
Anyhow there is consolation in num-
bers and with the official population Of
Washington rapidly increasing during
the month that is usually the dulest of
all the year by the Potomac. there prom
iScs to be a great show of legislative in
dustry. 1t is in fact no small tribute to
President Wilson's leadership of his
party that he has kept mis- congressman
on the job. Difficulties in maintaining
"A quorum of the House began only long
after the tariff bill had passed and when,
it made very little difference whether a
quorum stayed in town or not. Demo
cratic leaders of the house did not care
very much. Quorum or no quorum they
could adjourn from day to day. There
was little inconvenience about it for,
were Il quorum present. they could adj
ioilrn for three DAYS at !; stretch. which is
better than climbing Capitol Hill every
day at noon. ''' '!.'..'''
2.... SENATE QUORUM
Likewise there has been no difficulty
about keeping a quorum Of the Senate in
Washington which is noteworthy. Hard
~ day passed but what the quorum call
has been sounded there. but senators were
simply out in the cloakrooms, telling StOr-
les and taking their ease. Only the sick
have stayed away and there are but two
of those Senators Burleigh. of Maine.
and Culberson. of Texas. This facilitated
pair arrangements for one is democrat
and the other a republican. Senator
Works of California is about the first to
break away. having gone to Los Angeles.
int tn Il h.
cnt session. Sickness in his family is his
excuse A number of the older senators
have absented themselves for periods of
4 week or two. but these have practically
all been republicans. On the other hand
democratic senators have remained in
Washington almost TO a man s
CABINET MEMBERS VISITED.
The cabinet has yielded to summer
temptations more than than any other Of
fi.rials in Washington Ii is usual that as
long as the president stays his official ad
visdrs stay and SIS do other officials
lOwn the line. But President Wilson has
not been at alleXacting with his official
subordinates in that regard. Members Of
his cabinet have been fitting away to
seaside resorts and other cool places of
residence. Secretary Of Commerce Red
field is away in New England, storing up
physical energy for his task of the au-
tumn and the winter. Secretary of the
Navy Daniels is just back from a trans
continental journey which bristled with
incidents of moment to the newspapers.
Secretary of War Garrison has been lost
to the country in the meanwhile as he
Travelled on an inspection of army posts
throughout the west. all of which indi-
Gates the varying fortunes of cabinet Of
! fcials as to publicity when the jour
ney away from Washington. As much
might be said regarding Secretary of In
terror Lane He has been dined conspicu
ouslv as he vOyaged from irrigation pro-
/ jcct TO irrigation project and from In
| dian Reservation to Indian Reservation
but the els Mississippi country has learn
ed next to nothing about it and the In
terror Department here at Washington
has simply been going along its wonted
way.
/ STILL INVESTIGATING
The appetite Of Democratic authorit-
les ut Washington for formal investiga-
tions has not been altogether appeased
| but the time has nevertheless been ap-
preaching when Investigations will cease
nearly altogether and Washington will
devote itself to straightforward legisla-
/ aion an dStraightf1rward administration
| The last House, a Democratic body dis