Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1914-06-16
Is
PREPARING FOR
SUMMER CAPITAL
Chief Executive of Nation is Getting
Away from His Work More, But Slow
ing Up Season, Though at Hand, Is Not
in the Senate.
WHEELS STILL TURNING IN
BIG LEGISLATIVE FACTORY
Some Hard Contests Must be Determined
Under Blazing Sun by the Potomac Be-
fore WashingtOn's Shutters Are Closed
for the Summer.

Washington, ID. G., June l6.-Thrre =
n little slowing up at Washington. Ii i
not % 'evident at the capitol. because
wheels are still turning IN the bic lcgi>la-
tive factory. But the slowing up season
Is at hand there for all hut the impertur-
able Senate. Over nj the White House
President Wilson Is getting away from his
work more. He has just returned from u
week end on the water. having travelled L.
Annapolis ON the Mayflower for gradual
ton exercises al the Naval academy. IL
j. planning IN early trip 10 Cornish, y.
H., 10 install his family in a summer home
there, the same they occupied last sum
mcr. lie i likewise looking forward to at
tendance upon commencement exercises
and a class reunion at Princeton. the uni
verSity where he was president before he
became Governor of New Jersey.
After the tension and official industry
of the winter If was To nave been expected
that the early summer with it, high and
oppressive temperatures would bring some
reaction at the federal seat. The climate
at times j. semi tropical and men of all
political parties find the duties of govern
ment more or less irksomc. Accordingl,
II ~ the season for "eaSing Off" The
President of course. will stay ON guard
most OF the lime till Congress has actually
adjourned. Congress simply would not
work If the President himself could moi
stay in town with them. And who could
blame Congress-! The tasks il j. now as
summing are ut his special request. But
for them adjournment would come speed
lily and the country would rapidly be for
getting there was such a place a. Wash
lngton on the map.
Some hard contests. however. must vet
be- determined under the blazing sun by the
Potomac before the shutters 20 up IN
Washington for the summer season of
l9i4.. There are a few fights left IN the
appropriation bills. but not many. nothing
like n MANY n there used 10 be-. The
Democratic Senate and the Democratic
House get along In tolcrable accord in
these matters of routine legislation. Quite
half the appropriation bills han already
been signed. The President should have,
the rest of them within the next three
Nttk-. prior 10 July 1 10 bt tillTtiN nc
cnrate. That i when the government de
partments and bureaus will begin To draw
upon the money which Congress has been
voting the past winter.
When the rest time comes il will mean
several months of village quiet for Wash
ington IN all probability. such a quiet H.
has not been seen here for two or three
years. Everyone has been nj his post So
dong and % %arduou>ly he viii want 20 STAY
away ~ long a. he can. There will be- u
great exodus Tor the Congressional cam
paign. a. soon a. Congress adiourns for
that will be- 4 lfe and death political bat
tie for many people IN public life. !
Cabinet meIaberS do not propose to-
Journey tar afield thus summer. Il wantcdi
Ia 20 west this summer" said Secretary
Of the Interior Lane, ''bnt how can IL" Ilel
did not answer the question himself but
the answer j. not difficult. First Of all
there i the Mexican situation. which will
hold all the cabinet, a official advisers Of
the President. IN Washington till matters
have taken some definite shape. Ii may
Niagara Falls have concluded. Just now
the President chief worry j. coming 10
be- lest General Villa take the City Of Mex
lco. Ii would bring fresh complications
and might even spoil the plans for paclfy.