The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-03-26
GLAD It IS. OVER
VERDICT OF BANKERS !.
New York Financial Word Thank
full That Congress Aas At
Last Adjourned ST..

The Commercial and Financial Giro.
niele, the leading bankers Journal Of
the United States publishes the follow,
ing review Of the work Of the Sixty.
third Congress tsnd Nhe DenlotSlit
adm nistration, in its issue March 8, W.
"After an almost continuoiis sitting
for two years" said the Chronicle,
Hthe first feeling OF the country over
the ending of the Sixty.third Congress
by limitation must be a sigh OF relief
In length of term, in direct expensive
ness, in wordiness and widness Of talk.
In quantity of cnactments, In potential
mischief Of what was enacted aad pos.
sibly also in the gravity Of things a..
tempted ana falling to get throughI this
Congress- leaves a record we must de.
voutly hope will !never be paraileled
hereafter. ....... 81. j so
Congressional Marionettes' 'g,Se
business mas now q time Of calm
and thoughtful adjustment before it.
gdisturbed only by the European war.
This dismissed Of his marionettes by
the President reminds us anew Of the
menace contained In the so-called CON
from them; but for the actual injury
10 be wrought in practice we have, to
wait, relying as best we may upon 4
revivinR sanity ID public opinion and
upon a rational Interpretation by the
Sprreme Court in. course Of time, ~
eta king up a perversion rs he found
1t, Mr.. Wilson has energetically and
cornplacently pushed il along to what Is
nothing short of usurpation Of func.
TORS distinctly aAA fundamentally com,
mitted to other departments of govern.
ment. -,8n ! +tyl " a@4@
' "He has proposed IegisIa ion: he has
framed bi's;' Ne has issued orders; he
has rafoled; he has threatened, he has
publicly denounced And rldieu,eh Sen.
itors whb dafed held and stand by
opinions of their own he has done his
utrnnst TO make Congress a mere en-.
crossing bureau fof his, own DEGREES,
and therefore, eEUehsiveh and useless.
Submefgercy Of Popular win J
clad this come suddenly (imaginihg
for the n,oment that II could possibly
have come thus) II would have startled
nationj having come so gradually, the
country does not realize that the form
aut' working OF government have com,
pletely changed. IaHd the evils of this
change we are beginning to feel with
out eomprrhending II. Is
"Yet Mr., Wilpon has boon resisted
considerably. Notwithstanding the uH.
happy lack Of a genuine opposition, SO
necessary in q representatiye scheu,r
He has bren somewhat checked by the
Senators he denounced. The wild piece
If folly on which no persisted until he
threw the Appropriation Hills off line
ard left only the suggestive maksshif fl
~ = rortinoing RESOLUTION. he doubtless
did imagine Of value in an emergency
which existed only IN his own mind
hut he cared less forsit than for getting
whatever he had once demanded.
He was beaten npOn thet, most con
sn'cuousNy. and while his wisest course
I would row he TO frankly confess hi.
! human faIlibility and ''rdr-tate 20 d.
his utmost to restore the governmental
halanee and Legislative Quality which
have been so weIl.niRh destroyed, we
can hardly suppose he will rise to such
q height Of vision al that.
1.-THE Administration, ncminqllv De
mo"ratic, Int the very antithesis OF
early Democracy according to the JEFF
f"rsoR who 81 stfIIs Aiehtio"td at Party
diuners,{ Is now 0is.half finished. II
II no time 70 ventura predictions, yet
there IRE some signs chat Mr.. Wilson !
desttietiyt ehod intentions will have
less sway iuithe ASstg Congress!
| "He eanhof or Viii not read the les
'son OF Inst NbFeinber, but he ba'
wrought many disappoIntmerts and
raised 'inapy dissRtisfactions which are
vet TO be, Measured; moreover, it MAY
be that the second.thought Of tht
country, always our final resort. how
ever III ,Ipay, seem deadenel will grad