New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-23
Weary Members of Con
gress See Little Hope of
Summer Recess.
WILSON CONFERS WITH
HIS PARTY ADVISERS
Failure of Non.Partisan Way OF
Dealing with Trust Legisla-
tons Adds to Middle.
IRON The Trleuns Bureau.

Washington. March Administration
leaders. who made resolutions at the out
set of the present Congress 10 take
long recess during the forthcoming sum-
NOR are watching with miseving the et-
feet of pending legislation which threat
ems 10 clog the Congressional machine.
Members of Congress. impatient Tor an
early adjournment which VIII ehaoie
them 10 return home to take part in what
threatens to be a bitter campaign are De
ginning 10 despair, and il is possible mat
President Wilson will be urged 10 take
hand in the situation TO keep the legisla-
tive wheels turning.
There is a manifest divergence OF Oplh-
ON between House and Senate leaders
,ver the proposed antitrust legislation
which threatens to result in weeks. II not
months. OF debate. \ long and bitter
isht over the repeal of the Tolls eNemp-
ion provision of the Panama Canal act
: impending The perpleXing question OF
rural credits IS still before the commit
ICES. Some Of the appropriation pills nave
been passed. but there is much work
ahead on those which are yet to he
finally drafted. There are several ollls
of minor importance which Will lead 10
ionS controversy if steps are not taken
by the majority leaders to put them IN
storage until the Congress elections are
over.
Overworked legislators. who have been
I'm Washington practically for an entire
,car without respite and who have eN-
porienced the discomfort of several Wash
mcton summers. are beginning 10 despair
Although the President is criticised 1or
his "autocratic methods. there IS nope
lurking In many an nti-administrauoll
breast that he will again take charge OF
the situation. as he did on the currehc!
bill decide what bills are 10 be passed
and invoke the caucus rule TO save them.
Non Partisan Method Failure.
Tie non-partisan method Of dealing
with antitrust legislation has so FAR been
failure Bills having the approval OF
The President have been introduced IN the
House. but the Senate Interstate COM
MERGE Committee appears 10 have an on
;irclv different conception OF what should
nc done. II purposes to have but one
dill and. So far there is scarcely an
antitrust cure that has not been as
cusscd in connection with it. Republican
members of the committee are fast COM
ing TO the belief that ultimately the
President must decide what the trust
legislation IS 10 be and issue orders to
have il put through by the majority ma
chine
The confidence OF the opponents of the
tolls exemption repeal bill is also grow
ing. with the prospect that they will put
up stubborn fight The sentiment OF
tine country has been aroused and there
viii be general demand by members o.
Congress for an opportunity 10 explain
their action TO their constituencies. IL
is not improbable that there will be two
weeks Of debate on the tolls controversy
in the Senate alone. Opponents OF the
lrorosed repeal are earnestly at work on
senator's and Representatives who stiIl
are wagering. That there are some mem
,.rg in both Senate and House who really
ave not decided what TO do is claimed by
eading opponents Of the repeal, despite
Dee repeated publication of polls on the
ssue tending TO show large majoriues
'or repeal As the fight against the re-
zeal continues those who are directing
he opposition maintain that their prop
uganda is producing results and that
Some surprises are i'm store for the adj
m.nistration before the controversy IS
settled. on tho other hand, adminstra-
lion champions, while well aware that
the nght IS the most stubborn and un-
Yielding that has developed since the