New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-01
Time for Congress to Adjourn.

Tho country Is anxious to see Congress VIM ui
IFS work and adjourn. Senators and KepreSen'"
tiveS are keen to get away from "aShiii7''
TLey have been in session continuously TOT loul-
teen months and feel stale and irritable hut '"eS
are being held inexorably TO their task by the hIu
ost +oskmaster who ever cracked his whip under
the dome Of the Capitol.
ono mans will overrides the judgment ana
wishes Of Congress- President Wilson has decreeu
that the two houses shall finish the programme
which he has laid down for them. Yet there are
limits TO servility and endurance. The rules OF 'e
Senate stand as a barrier in the way or any cocN
ike execution of orders transmitted from the White
House There is little prospect that the leglSa-
ton which the President is championing can get
through the Senate unless Congress sits until DC
toher Even so obstinate a man-driver rs Mr.. Will
son ought to see by this time that he has miSca
,,lated tbe maximum of work that can he got out
Of q following i'm Congress which his demands nave
already exhausted
The canal tolls repeal act may he passed in the
Senate this week or next week The antitrust
bills NAV get through the House of Representatives
about the same time. That is all the substantial
achievement which Mr. Wilson has right to exp
at this session. II is more than the country eN
poets or wants. Having gone that far Congress
ought 10 rush through the remaining appropriation
bills and start for home
70 trv TO hold Senators an Representatives in
WASHINGTON all summer and COerce them into pass
ing new antitrust laws which could only ADJ TO
the uncertainties of business and reard the return
Of industrial activity would be a foolish affront to
public sentiment The country would be far better
off with this legislation in allegiance Moreover
the administration cannot afford at his Juncture
to dissipate its energies engaging in another long
campaign of legislative promotion 1t has the Mex
lean problem on its hands, and ought to reserve all
the strength at its command for use in dealing
with a question which has hitherto greatly over
taxed its powers.
1t was a great misfortune that Mr.. Wilson was
obliged to construct a Mexican policy, or some
thing which looked like such a policy. year ago
when his mind absorbed with tariff revision
He has said that he has mind which operates
"on single track" Nearly all the difficulties
which he has encountered in Mexico have come
from the casual manner in which he first sought
10 deal with the Mexican situation. He never
looked much further than into the next week. and
drifted and drifted along because he was much
more Immediately concerned with the legislation
he was getting out of Congress. AS often happens
the tasks he thought the easiest turned out to be
ministration is being generally judged on what has
been by far its weakest performance.
1t is one more urgent argument in favor of
prompt adjournment Of Congress that the Presi-
dent needs all the time he can possibly give TO
mastering the Mexican question and developing
policy toward Mexican reorganization which by
virtue of its inteigibility and practical efficiency
will produce sound results and win back general
reSDect.