The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-04-14
LAWMAKERS
.DEClDMING
RESTLESS
Senators and Representative ct
Washington Not Pleased Over
Outlook for Long Summer ses-
sion - Canal Toll Repeal Bill
VIII Start Months Fight IN
Senate Anti-Trus Bills Dor
mant.
BY Ernest q. walker.


Mail Special to The Adve-tiscrD ]
WASHINGTON, March so.-with
all the congressional shakcups of the
last few days, many propositions, here.
.tofore considered perfectly good, are
going to pot. The agreed upon order
Of procedure has been disturbed. At
'tention, has been diverted. Interest
has been destroyed. Can brain power
again be focused upon these matters
and can congress be persuaded to con
.eentrate itself upon what has been con
sidered rs necessary tasISsi Will the
individual senators and representatives
he ms regardful as heretofore of what
the President wants.
In that connection one thinks of the
antitrust program. At this moment
the antitrust bills appear to be in real
peril Every one of them may die of
hamilton. The enthusiasm for amend.
ments TO the sherman law has grad.
ually been oozing out. Committees OF
the senate and committees of the house
that had been wrestling with those
antitrust bills have gradually been
sinking into obseurity. The country
HAo fOttu 0OIlCt
of them and remember it is very diff
cult for committee Of congress &c
wrinkle IFS brows over legislation wheE
the people are not watching and criti
'eizing or PraiAing as the case may be
or may merit.
Tolls Bill Live Topic.
Now there are slight prospects that
any attention can be called TO the anti
trust bills. The big legislative topi,
for the time being is the exemption re
peal bbill and thus Il viii remain FOL
some time while the senate .deliberatei
thereon. Aud another big politica
topic goes along with II. is the Demo
cratic party to be split wide open By
the processes of the last ten ,daysf Tn,
politicians and many of the voters will
nbeinquiring and will DO thinking abou
those two matters for the next montI
or two At least, How can. one max,
them think about the trade commission
Hill, or interlocking direetorates, or reg
ulation of railroad securitiesf Whel
the President first brought the anti
trust subjects before. congress by hi
special message the country had moth
| ing else to think about.
The warm weather. will certainly b
here before ANTITRUST bills can be con
sidered aud twill be irksomc business
lCongressmen win be talking how the
have been through two enormous fight
lin one session-the currency bill fgh
and the exemptions repeal bill fight
That is as much as flesh and blood cal
stand in one session Of congress an,
that, too, when a congressional cam
paign is ahead.
Furthermore President Wilson vii
not find it as easy to keep congressme
in town this year as he did last. j
the spring and summer of 1913 ther
were no politics at home. In the sprinl
and summer Of 1914 there are polite
in every congressional district. Prim
aries arc already raging in certain sec
tons of the land and more are comm
| rapidly. There is another importan
consideration: In these up TO dat
times, good politicians, know how fulfil
II is 20 defer campaign activities I'll
the last three or four weeks. Candi
dates for Offices know that the effeetiv
work is done months in advance, befor
the people have been aroused to polit
iiNui hSbiNitiSp. I'm f... #t'.r e. .... d..
Campaign Drawing Near.
Now Democrats in senate and hons
have had might little opportunity TO
circulating among their constituent
during the last year. But they know
there arc Republican candidates a
home, who have had many 0ppOrtunitie
to go up and down the district making
friends and perfecting their 0rganiza
tions. So II il that these Democrats
senator's and representatives who hav'
anything like o hard fight to get bacl
in November simply cannot be detained
in Washington after a few weeks more
Congress or no congress they win 9,
ont among their constituents. Senate
Clarke, Of Arkansas, is an example. III
is President pro tenpore Of the senate
chosen to place of distinction tina
he may preside when the Vice Presiden
does not attend, In the days whel
Senator Frye, Of Maine, was presiden
pro tempore, he always remained OF
the job. Senator Clarke has harah
been in Washington this year. He ha
had terrific fight for denomination o.
his hands and has been out in Arkansa
campaigning. Now he is just return
ing TO Washington, the primaries hay
ing been held. He can stay here now
for after the primaries are held y
Arkansas, the campaign ceases. Tn
Democrats nominated are certain to b,
elected. II is not so, however, in man.
states. The holding Of the primaryai
only the beginning of the campaign,
Senators already talk about "iayinl
over = lot of bills in which the ad
ministration Is interested. There is no
sufficient time for the prolonged dehat
ing which these measures entail. TIL
Burnett Immigration Bin may be on
of them. II has been favorablv re
ported, but there is much opposition
The President is said not to regard th
illiteracy test in that immigration bill
very favornbly, and might prefer tina
II 90 over till another year, or evel
till another congress- The Good Road
Bill is another measure, just reporte
fayorably, but so certain to prOvok
Opposition that no serious effort ma
J be made for it, Those who hope to xii