Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-08-30
ErecutiUe No Longer
Immune From Quiz
Continued From RAGE One

UuI lie answered.
like the humblest Of witnesses; in fact
more frankly than most witnesses be
fore Congressional committees.
The press stood in the ante room
"a certain sacredness hedges about thi,
new function in spite of this age Of
open diplomacy The words of til,
august witness were rushed out to th,
natives. A way had been found to make
the one man government render an &C
counting.
An oxtroor5iror,, .h;rr tho si,ris
conca nf which ono can yet only dimly
pucss had taken Mace. 4 new point o,
contact had been established betweer
prosidort and Congress Congress bns
ossrmod q rov frnctior hotween IN,
nrbl;c and tho oxecutive
Tho country has now through n com
r,it+oo ~ Congress n mems of inter
noIIatirU the exacutive II has cen
torod nouor and rosnonsibility In the
Londs ~ +bo axecut;va II has now a
means rudimpntarv indeed. but still a
means of checking up the use of the
mower it has lodged in the executive.
~
An Entering "edge
To be sure the thing has only been
done once and in the case where q
president has chosen to be his negotiator
in making a treaty. But what has been
done once may be done many times
What has been done with respect to
treatymaking may be done with respect
To any one OF the luhctlohs 'he '''i
deilI exercises .h:,, :, +bo+ tho ron
oontratinn of mower has produced a GER
,,;,, noaotion almost certain in healthy
Ja,,ocrocy the development of means
w. ostaLii,biru nrompt responsibility
~ " ti'o ,,no of that mower.
The President is no longer free
merely to make speeches at us from the
roor platform of train for which his
party managers pay, upon a route care :
fully chosen by his party managers a.
certain to be fertile in votes ne mus
take the stand before the entire nhtlon
and submit to be questioned py repre-
scntativcs of the people, including men
of the opposite party. Inc colnp0i'i''
is there plain as day. ,,..
If we go on having presluen'S I'M
Mr.. Wilson, autocratlc preslueh's, ei,"
men chosen to meet great emergencies,
and endowed with all the authorlts .nao
the concentration VI p0p ora TkaIv to
upon them gives, tneh we arc .nnnts n os
have thr in'ei 'aI' lsia't Gov tho frst time in
practlced 1ueSuas ~ tnroisr relations
history by the "e""''
committee
Dilemma and Solutions
. o,rorently two ways
lhe.e az IiIo,na into which our
steady aggrandizing of the executive mas mas
created, a dilemma Wntn ~. tho 10 a
entire country 10 nee LaIt ord ask
Congress election 10 eau nov" tbo al
if it had not gone 'oo ia'
rectiOn of one man soFe' n'
One way is to go back to the oid styit
President. to the POlks and the haSeses
or better still. to the MchlnieyS' vi
to nuote the current irreverent appelia
tior to the "two by four Presidents.
Given such President power WI,
once more be diffused. The anclen,
balance will be restored. The contemp,
into which Congress has fallen vii
mass. Men will no longer, as llmotn'
Drydollar Sullivan salu alter ohe 'ei III -
Washington, 'tie horses to congress
mon" "
p,,t +bot Is to turn back, and AmericG
so,dnm turns hack.
Tbp other wav is to go on electing the
Clevelands and RooSeVeits anu itSoni nhon,
ana maze '1ns.e sh tho internoIlation
upon 'hen' 'ifou fI;i;,ni ~, coll Il tbrougl
or as we n'ole oI:.ai ;nrostieotion
the 'ons'
/ Eyes Opened by Last Eiect'oh
Tho Iost election opcned the eyes o
u,n ,,o1itici,ns II opened the eyes o
tho prosident II oppned the eyes o
Gnnnross esncciallv the Republicans II
,5s rbo countrv wanted some
,L;ma dono to redress the balance upse
~. t"'tS H., war Congress- must be stronger
~ ,,,,,st count for something in tn,
,,La,,o of things Congress set abou
hoing strong nv throwing out its chest
hv nostnring. by talking abou
"ooroI;tv " bv stufing the foreign re
,otiohs committee. the committee chal
ioaa;nr inst nov hte President, Will
~ the professional strong men avail
"H "Lro Wv
rrI,o p.o,I5or+ cot onout meeting tn,
.uiaia;,r, tbot bc had bppn too auto
onntia hr s,nilos and boks and courtesies
I,m now '.rrociousnpss, Both wer,
,ni,di,, ridicuIons
President Senses opportunity
Congress might pave been really