The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-04-14
WILSON
for Selfish !
REAs6As
Speaker Clark and Majority Lead
er Underwood Accused of Poll
tical Aspirations Which Are
Said to Account for Peculiar
Attitudes Recently in the House.

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thrill Of mOinentous doings is still fcli
deiightfaliy at the federal capital TIL,
IMPORTANT elcmcnt Of what Washington
knows "a situation, n namely ancer
tAinty over the outcome, now soem,
lacking. The action over canal toll
was sharp and decisive. A maj ority in
.sRr aonse was assured wltllih an. honi
hilcr the has. ialle was calico ON the
1nfst parliamentary test. the counters
~ seis;lte Aoses s.ly dolfbt AZ none Asst.
unt, ~ tnat end .. the great law 4ac.
tory, NEVERTHELESS, wfthln rocent DAYS
uathiaigtOn has has, a RAJ political anu
legialallve uprI1lng. AZ aKIll inquire as
ole al the events of the administration.
spsaizInf IA tOngressipnai way, ie ID
tse miHlfiest .cyelh, anong events not
Oh the pfdeily ss.hedile OF things, since
chat historic ami Cannon pprlsing in
A4arch VI Iy10
speaker i,lark may not fcd entirely
coi,flortable over what has happened.
tfrohably Majority aIeaI6r. iLndcrwood
has ltes 40 regret, for certainly his part
in trying 20 defeat repeat Oh the Uanal
Tolls exemption proxision does not re.
suit f1em an ingrowlng crouch at hav-
ing Lost the presidentisd nomination at
.aattiipore These two, and, alike Chair
man Fitzgerald, of the Appropriations
Committee, ana Claude Kntchin, pros.
liectjfe ehaifmaiI OF ways and means,
lnakihg, perhaps, fnnr Of the most
Iironlinent Democrats In Tho house, are
eOnsoling bhemselEes with The idea chat
when setIlrns begin coming in from tho
country their Views will be approved. :
M Party Harmony Threatened. g y
" All Of them may rejoice inwardly
that victory was not theirs in The mchi-
orable test over tho so-salIed, e Chg;
rule The Speaker and the daj1fify
Leader mt least, would havc had the
attnatioh on their own handsl They
might not have known quite what ~
do with IL They would have been nei,
gespohsiblS for Breaking the Presil
dents ieadcrship over congress. The
Presidents friends would naturally
haTolseome Mt them saAaeeiy. There
Wehld have been avalanches OF eriti.
icism and of the bitterest sort n nos.
siblo doubt could have then existed that
party ranks had boon riven. y
I Now the President simply has 10 hit I
tie on with his tolls repeal bill al Nj fhka
the consequences. II II ali eeantdktes
happily, he will be more popular tha,,
ever. The talk about party division
may quiet down and be foreotten.
speaker Clark may continue hating
.ssecretary Bryansand President Wilson.
The country will take less and less no.
ice OF him. IL Representative Uhder.
wood gets TO the senate, his career a.
member of the house will. be behind
him and he mny continue to eontem.
plate from his little Greek temple
whether be can ever get into a presiden,
tial riihRing again. 'i5is l-ltiee& \ I
Opponents Budding castlss. \
His Republiean epponehts, ana cor.
tam .s,, % has Democratic oppondnts are
ming the scloakrooms end cnrridors.
with 'lpgutREtions. The President must
pay the fiddler yet. They are pointing
confidently ito those days fortnight
or month from now when sentiment
has had opportunity to crystallize ana
make itself felt at Washington. They,
are already building castles, ON nros.
poets that their, political Judgment will,
be vindieated and that the country viii
Iong bafoso ~" ing tolis serimmage
cone In eS 49, ~ $500 senate has
courses II thaso .a.,L heIeoh' ~
tbe Pres;dant 'I p,opnesies are right,
II would mean that bis nonn anssu
which seems to have been, growing win
the country, has como TO a stop. that he
has gotten his party into serious trouble
and that the Democrats will have 4 ]
heavy load TO carry into the congress.
'onal elections this year.
Presumably some Of the. Ptesident,s
leading Democratic opponents n the
senate and house are moved by sincere
convictions. Washington, however, on
the surface seems to be ascribinR the
light 70 presidential ambitions, bear.
ing in mind also, in a few 'cases the
antipathy which Irishrnep have for the
mother county. The average man
mere y having no difficulty in his own
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