Evening star., 1927-03-13
CONGRESS RECESS
AIDS DSCOOL|DGE AIMS
Assures Him of Free Hand in
Dealing With Mexico
and Nicaragua.
by @. GOULD LINCOLN.

The Coolidge administration faces
nine months of congressional recess
probably without regret.
The President, in the absence of
Congress, always has freer hand.
His powers are not increased. His
critics and the critics of his policies
no longer have a forum which gives
| opportunity of wide publicity.
4 The next nine months, in meas
ure, are critical for the admlnistra-
| ton, though it has little really 10 fear.
mined to spend his Summer in the
West. Bringing the head of the ad-
ministration closer to that section of
the country will make for q. better
feeling on the part of the West to the
administration. No other President
of the United State has deliberately
established a Summer white House
in the West.
Freer Hand On Mexico.
The President will have a freer hand
in working out his Mexican and Mic
araguan policies. With Congress
here, the administrator opponents
during the last three months have Wig
orously assailed the course pursued
with regard to these sister republics.
EVEN HOW LIlGtS diG SlEIlC LAetL LAAC 0lt-
ferences with Mexico over the land
and petroleum laws may be adjusted
in a manner satisfactory to this coun-
try.
Furthermore, the President has
finally succeeded In fathering real
naval limitation conference with
Great Britain and Japan. He has
given the United States another op-
portunity TO take a leading part in
the question of arms limitation. The
three power conference at Geneva this
summer will be watched with the
keenest interest, and If there is q
measure of success, as seems likely
in view of the cordial replies of the
British and the Japanese, the credit
will go largely to President Coolidge.
If the administration can establish
better relations with the West, where
it's critics are centered; if it can
handle the vexing Nicaraguan and
Mexican situations successfully, and
can bring about somf further naval
limitation agreement, 1t will have
added important feathers to its cap
during the Spring and Summer.
President in Limelight.
The President of the United States
cannot avoid the limelight If he
wishes to do so, When Congress is
not in session there is no one to di.
vide the limelight with him, even in
! degree. 1T has been said in some
quarters that the President is spend
| ing the Summer in the West for pO-
! liticaI purposes, that 1t is move to
| strengthen him with the Republicans
! of that section. some of whom have
! been disgruntled by his veto of the
| McNary- -Haugen farm relief bill.
| This is not fair to the President
| His desire to go West for this Sum
mer was expressed informally long
! before he took action on the farm
| bill. But his stay is the West, II is
| believed, cannot fail to advance him
! politically, if he determines to become
a candidate for denomination and re
/ election next year. The West has
| felt for q long time that it has ''been
out of the picture" that it was not
understood by the powers that be.
Despite his failure to stand for
farm relief legislation favored by
! some Of the farm organizations, the
! President has been popular in the
West. His policy of economy i'm Gov
ernment expenditures and of tax re
duction took hold of the imagination
OF the farmers particularly. AS q
class the farmers have suffered
heavily from taxation; not Fedora
taxation. il is true. but State and
county.
Welcome Economy Move.
The farmers have welcomed mar
at the head of the National Govern
ment who has made economy the
principal part of creed of the ad
ministration. They hope that State
executives win follow the example sci
by the Chief Executive of the nation
Since his veto of the farm reliei
bill, Senators and Representatives
from some OF the Northwestern States
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