Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1914-03-12
rlssouRlAN LIKELY TO 9e
NJ, CHAIRMAN OF FOREIGN RELA-
- TONS COMMITTEE.
PLACE OF HIGH IMPORTANCE
,.,,,o,l.m. Rather Than Politics, Cow
..o, the Deliberations Of This Body
Of the Senate which Deals
with Big Affairs.
av GEORGE CLINTON.

n a Racon succeeded Senator Cul
s "a nresiding officer OF the COM
m,ttee last March. He had Deen a
,,smber of the foreign relations Dody
-. Great many years, and therefore
rs m roughly familiar with all the
ao-t with which It is charged. sen
w.. p,con was a conservative man,
,h,e and forceful, and he mao the re
.nsc, Of all the senators, no mat
w. what we're their political amhf
lions. .ho INV,
= rien relations committee OF tne sen
ate ia one Of high Importance Tue
antics OF this committee frequently
arc Of the most delicate character,
Involving as they do on occasion the
Issues OF war and peace, Senator VII
nam J. stone OF Missouri probably
viii succeed to the position OF presid-
Two officer OF the committee, for he Is
me ranking Democrat holding mem
hership in that body. Mr.. stone Is
Known as a politician and as an In
tanse partisan, but unouestionably he
will shed politics and partisanship
when he takes Mr.. Bacon's seat at the
hand NJ the foreign relations table.
Some men have called William j.
stone Gum Shoe Bill" for good
many Years, and the name is not sug.
restive OF high capabilities, but there
are such things as misnomers. The
Missouri senator is known % his col
leagues regardless Of party as man
q, brain and corresponding under
standing, and moreover, he always
has held that patriotism ranks poll
tics although the latter has been his
close companion.
President Took Hls Advice.
President Wilson, to a considerable
srtent, has been viewing legislation as
A party matter. Seemingly he has
given little thought to the probability
that Republicans and Progressives
might help in putting through bills
which appeal to their judgment Mr..
Wilson made his partisan position
clear when he told the suffragists
who called on him that he could not
do anything for them because their
cause was not party one.
While Washington understood pref
ty well Mr. Wilson'S views along these
lines, II nevertheless was puzzled
when in the early days Of his admins
tration be made An attempt to deal
with foreign affairs solely through the
Democratic members of the senate
committee on foreign relations. The
Republican members of the committee
were astouished and perhaps hurt.
Senator Lodge probably knows more
about the intricacies of our foreign
Affairs than does any other member
Of the committee.
Senator Root was once secretary OF
state. Today he is a member OF the
foreign relations committee. His
knowledge OF Central and South Amer.
lean affairs is greater than that OF
Senator Lodge. and on European and
Eastern matters his knowledge prob
ably is equal to that of the Massa-
chusetts senator. When Senator Ba-
con, Democrat, who succeeded Sena-
tor Cullom as chairman OF the com.
mittee, found out that 1t was Presi-
cent Wilson's intention to consult on
foreign affairs only the Democratic
members OF the committee, he told his
party chieftair frankly that he was
making a mistake. and that he had
better unmake II as soon as possible.
mr.. Wilson followed the Georgian's
soVice instantly and every member
! u the senate committee was invited
% the White House to the first great
mexican conference, and has been in
H'ea TO every other conference of i'm
portance since that time.
Why Are So Many Out Of Work.
When the federal Industrial com.
MISSION began its inquiry in New
iork city to discover the tea-
son why so many men and women
were out OF work, the administration
waited with interest for the fi-st word
IRON the commissions chairman
FRANK Walsh. The Democratic ma.
OT'y in congress also awaited the
wore with interest. while the Re2ub
means and Progressives awaited 1t
WIN interest supplemented by keen
curiosity.
one OF the first reports which came
noH' INC commission was to the effec,
.ua' I's chairman declared bluntly
uly mere were $4,000 persons our OF
noIH IN New York city. This state
%en' without adequate explanation
was wired to Washington and Il
1 or disturbance, and caused tht
opposition parties to taunt their Demo
la, Sa'!c opponents with having insti
.u'ea national policies and hayins
SasSed national laws which had in
!ufed industry and had thrown hun
@eoS o; thousands OF willing worker,
out Of Jobs.
me White House read the reportec
lords Soru' of Mr., Walsh with Amusement
% because the inference naturally wa,
NO NO 'le condition OF nor-employmen
vas unusual and could be traced onl,
conditions which had spruns from