Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-05-28
SENATOR'S WORRY
FOR A VACATION;
HOT
SESSION Has BEEN LONG


The capacitl Of feHgr e. , see
ond cuntinuOue snI1Nlcr narn he
a. the test >.hnrry ti& trust
bills. following 'mrit iw"n I gen
eral debate arsl mssoii tin" @stt-r the
five minute m q. = IS he H@h the
House. That a lion viii NJ ritual
completion Of the Lu-Sidc \ gram
as far as that Lanes " ~ -. con
cerned. Some af no. atiort y fmain
10 be- sure. but kley sre la frtinc.
Senators are aylft the VIII
not stay in w -hinEtm r1 -llgcr.
The heat j. bcCsmin lpps. There
has been an I'm, sem ptcds az sslon-
nj performance ,laci Aprll tfi with
Just a little va, s,iok -ow aa q. but
the flesh is yer fsgea.n Nous+ shall
the honorable -snatf DO? .-rry-
body worn ont Httd ih 40 II nn thrcc
or four month murc of -Fst,c cf-
fort. "A dccisioss "a - an tt.fa' bills.
must be made. Z "a Zee ase Va s" those
measures into sapc at. g. ease
Of the currrncr wira il 4 FDugh
the House much lrIarent TanIs to
be done.
Some though th, ',cna Co. estate
Commerce C0nHaItt-t haze f-f rluch
toward getting those MEG ready
for consideratiur Otl4.rs -f y arlng
that the Comm tee isfar ifss@ raVing
gotten the hillg mt such saTfr IS 70
command apprFSal r the rf Sew
eral wesks NJ f-rm NJ tee itlnn.
a. il is claimed u "a ain " f vii;
be- indispensable TlS lnterist Texas
Commission bill rliA get b the
Senate without ruch tnlays iHH .nrcn
sus If opinion IN W shinf that
the Trade Con nissioF bill well
enough. does ms mars an act
vance. 1t is rat rr lik<y T. ? acgin-
ming in a certs > ditAttioAa ~ In
tcrstate Commer .r Coz ms<s me new
body presumal Y will be more
power and autfzlit ~ tn i pass
ii conditions Justify tins.
A part Of Il. ANTITRUST GIL anime
might pass tile senate with"ui y llong.
ed contention. The rest az y badly
cannot pass till along late ~ sum
mer. III Senator are convhr 4 after
careful examim tions Of tlE tloVsc
bills. that exhaustive work = = Ssary
10 prepare thcIt all. Prcsidre Wilson
will be urged strongly to let 5Agrcss
al journ without passing the .tsck and
bonds bill and. possibly thu clayton
bill affecting i~ntcrlocking Ia ~tOratcs
and other drastic provisions. Prcsl-
dent probably will hold fast. D. pres.
ent cutlery against these bill Is from
the corporations. that want ~, further
regulation or restriction. Thcysare now
branding the legislation AZ "Ahti-busi-
ness bills That. however. u not the
Opposition that will stay Congress and
compel posipOnemcnt of these questions
presumably for about two years. III
there II poStponcmcnt II Will bc because
Congress. particularly the Senate. u
tired out and because the Senate com
mittees have not improved the winter IN
working out n perfected text
From the President = side n the
fence there \, little reason why he
should yield now "a Congress. Yielding
'would be taken up by his enemies as
another count in the indictment Of his
administration before the voters In Nov
action nightly a. 4 surrender ~ big
eniber. Progrcssives would herald the
business" They have sought such an
issue from time 10 time and empha-
sized sucn q trend in their public nj
'trranreS. Republicans would say the
President had become alarmed AZ the
business failure Of his administration
and simply dared 20 20 no further
Changes would he rung on the prostra-
ton Of industry. due ~ an iniquitous
free trade tariff. the disarrangrmenf ~
finance from n partisan currency law,
the bungling of a war situation. AMI So
lon.
But If President proceeds with the
Senate. he will have his antitrust bills
presumably by August There IL prob
ABLY little doubt that the Senate viii
lplod on. If the President insists. No mat
tier what n p-odigous volume Of work
has alcrady heen done. The President