The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-21
DRIVES
 WITH IRON HAND Will Force Child Labor Bill Before Adjournment SOUTHERNERS IN WAY They Are Not Enthusiastic Over Meas ure-Labor and State Depart
 ments at Loggerheads Over
 the Castro Affair
SOUTHERNERS IN WAY
By HUGH ". ROBERTS

WlloOH lo attempting lO 1OTC6 lGSlSld- tion during the remaining days of the session. He is apparently very anxious that nothing be left undone which in its enactment might win votes. Democrats the majority of whom are from the south--the only section which has not felt the wave of unparalleled pros-
 pcrity"-will, it is very probable, do- because of the presidential year"-as the President directs
 It is reasonable to suppose, therefore that the child labor bill will be whipped into law, although democrats l in caucus, had concluded to postpone it's further consideration until the harvest moon fills his horn in the fall The President has acquired an impression that child labor legislation will induce l certain disgruntled progressives to raj l ly to the democratic standard, for while the democrat and republican parties have always stood for child la
 for statutes, the progressive party alone has appeared really serious in its posi- tion. Democrats, especially southern democrats, who believe that certain | matters should be left to the separate states, have displayed little love for the pending child labor bill, and it was chiefly through their activity that the democratic caucus postponed action. But the President, as has already been reported, dramatically appeared at the capitol this week and, calling into his presence certain steadfast admin istration senators, gave the instruc- tion that the child labor bill must be enacted. Inasmuch as the President has always had his way-for there are a great many members of Con- gress who sneeze whenever the exec utive nose sniffs snuff-it is very probable that the instruction will be obeyed.
 However, very quietly certain sen ators who, in the long run, will re- spond to the presidential direction, are
 grumbling It what they term the pro- fessional attitude of Mr. Wilson. They
 declare that he acts as if he still were
 president of Princeton university and they unruly schoolboys. They declare that the Wilson predilection to note
 writing is not the only trait which in-
 less, as stated, in the end they will, in all robability.srespond.
 And yet they say:
 Because of the Presidents opposi- ton we postponed action on the inn l migration bill. The enactment of that
 bill might or might not cost the ad- ministration a certain percentage of the foreign vote But on an intima- : ton from the White House we put tho
 measure to sleep-certainly as far as this session is concerned.
 But yet the President is dissatis- fled. He demands that the programme
 be changed again. We cannot say what
 will be done.''
 But if fight over the child labor
 bill develops, the contemplated ad-
 journment August 19 will not mate- rialize, it is promised.
 Between the department of state and the department of labor very little love is lost. The relationship between the two has been further strained, it is generally reported in Washington, as result of Secretary Wilson's rul- ing that Cipriano Castro, exiled Presi- dent of Venezuela, be admitted to the United States.
 The department of state, it is un- derstood had previously directed the board which investigated the case of Castro. to prevent his entrance. II is alleged that the department of state was moved through the insistence of certain South American republics in terested in the movements of the for mer Venezuelan executive.
 Secretary Wilson declares that there was no ground on which Castro could be barred. He stated that in 1913 Cas- tro had declined to answer certain questions as to the death of General Paredes. former political rival of his and had been barred, therefore, on is- sues involving moral turpitude. These questions, in this instance, were an swered by Castro to the effect that he had had nothing to do with the put ting away" of the general.
 Thereafter, in effect said Secretary Wilson, there was nothing by means oi which to raise the bars against thu Ivisitor
 There has been no "outcropping" oi the feeling said to exist between tho departments, although the public k
 given to understand from "reliabl,
 sources" that prior to the ruling of Sec retary Wilson. Immigration Commits
 sioner Caminetti had urged that Castro be admitted.
 | Cipriano, at any rate, is in the United States and may remain as long as ht desires The insuiar possessions even are not barred to his entrance. But there | is no indication that Lansing and Vii
 son will soon appear arm-linked-in-arn
 before the gaze of the public. 1 The New York Sun apparently sympa l thizes with Senator Underwood's rest l lessness under the inactivity of the Sen ] ate. As heretofore reported in The Age l Herald, the Alaoamian, accustomed l through long service in the House, t. telling and systematic work. favors tn, adoption of modified rule of clotur' which would remove the Senate as { rival to the President in the extensiv use of language"
 l The New York Sun. in including tn