The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-08-15
BALkY .BOURBONS.
THREATEN P|LIklA
FOR WHITE HOUSE
Southern Democrats Are willing
To Ignore Real interests
Of Their Party
FEATHERiNG OWN NESTS
IS THEIR ONLY OBJECT
Force immigration Bill To Fore
As Rider To Child Labor
(BY ERNEST @. WALKER)
mail Special to The Adyertiser)

1
WASHINGTON, July 3.-Thc Senate
Democracy finds itself in "A pretty mcss
over the forthcoming insta lmcnt Of re-
form lcgsIation On the one side arc
those impl&cable Southern DcmOcratf,
senators, who do not care ovprmuch
about the party rs n national PROPOSE
ton as long as their own constituencies
are satisfied, while on the other side
are the Republican senator's, who, very
| properly, propose to make trouble ana
| cause PmhnrI assment. There arc votes
for the child labor bill, which President
Wilson insists mast be enacted That
Is house bill and a senate majority
now assured, could speedily enact it in.
to law. Then products Of child labOl
! would be taboo in Interstate Commerce.
unless ultimately the United States Su-
premc Court says such law is unrOnsti-
tutiOnal.
'But the problem is to keep riders
off this bill and especially the immigra
ton bill, which has also passed the
house. Southern Democrats there fore
ed it to the fore, Observation-Disclosures
fact that President Wilson had vetoed
it in the last congress- The Democrat,
caucus has decided in favor of post
poninG action on the immigration Viii
till next session, which will be after the
! election. There seems to be some Ques
tiOn whether this was binding caucus
vote, for DemOcrat caucusrs at the
senate ar" not heavily attended these
'O-rd summer n; EhtS.
Bourbons Seek H armony
None the less the effort will apparent
ly be for all senate democrats to stand
together to keep the immigration bill
"ider off the child labor bill Rrpuh
lican help can hardly be expected i'll
this and the question comes down to
now many of the Southern Democrats
will rebel. If the detection should be.
very large, there would be real danger
of the rider $ adoption and the honor
able gentlemen who are more anxious
to play politics than to get the Child
Labor law might really get the Prcsi
dent into n corner.
Be all that as it may, such splcndidly
advertised schemes as this hns been
usually 60 n"ry at the capitol Demo
Gratis, of c0ursC, would be old fools to
entangle President Wilson at this cam
paign juncture. He could not fail to
veto another immigration bill, if sent
to him now, without subjecting him
self to real accusation of incOnsis
tcncy and of bringing down upon his
head the wrath Of an enormous foreign
born population in the cities, where the
educational qualification has been op
Wiz
measures were sent to him under ON,
title, the President could not veto one
without vctoing both. The proposition
would spell party decentralization in
congress, on the heels of most re
markable Democratic record for Con
gressional ennctmrnts
With all this in mind, it is very
doubtful whether the party will not
find some way to fight Off the immigrn
tion bill and leave it to be voted upon
next December when there is not quite
so much intensity about getting votes
House Taking Rest
For the past week the house has beer
almost non eXistunt, and this status
promises to continue. The hig stunt
of the closing days Of July has been
the virtual completion of the prepared
ness measures, mora specifically tn,
army and navy appropriation bills. II
another week or ten days, the adjust
mcnts between the two houses may b,
completed and the acts sent to tn,
President for signature. Until thos,
adjustments are made. there will be
more or less uncertainty Just how mucl
revenue will be required during thu
next twelve months. Although the ad
sono+o DoorI,, ,nonth ooo sIi,ht ~
tontior hos oor noiJ - tbora ,rL,
ooron,it,oo m Gna,oo boa koo,, ,,,,.l,;n,
moro or los. ;ndiTorontIv on tho ,sma,
ro,i.ions wbicL Tho .ono.o n,.'Los ~,
.,,,on,,a D,oas,,ros froD, ~ Ln,,'o
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