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Show SEE POLITICS IN WILSON'S MOVES Majority Senators Regard President as Playing a Shrewd Game. Vetoes in Mind as Evidence of Purpose to Reap Partisan Advantage. By JUSTIN M'GRATH, Editorial Correspondent Universal Service. WASHINGTON, July 16. There may be some Republican senators who regard President "Wilson as a hopeless idealist, but none of them -who-is a politician as well as a statement any longer entertains enter-tains that opinion, even though his view of the president's foreign policy be unchanged. un-changed. On the contrary, the politician members of the senate on the-Republican side are greatly worried over the successful practical prac-tical politics the president has played since his return from abroad. "While they publicly deplore the idealism which leads him to thrust foreign complications on the United States, privately they are de-votinga de-votinga lot of thought and discussion to the best means of offsetting the political effect of three master political moves they admit he has made since his homecoming. home-coming. The first of these moves was the manner man-ner in which he met the criticism that he had ignored the senate in the matter of the treaty. The constitution prescribes that treaties are to be made by the president by and with the consent of the senate. While the president was in Paris the charge was made that he was proceeding without with-out the advice of tho senate and in contempt con-tempt of Its expressed opinions. Spikes Guns by Move. Undoubtedly there was justification for that charge, and unquestionably the impression im-pression was growing throughout the country that in the peace negotiations the president was proceeding autocratically autocrati-cally to shape the treaty accordinv to his own views, regardless of tho views of the senate. The Republicans were making mak-ing sa lot of political capital with that charge. They expected to make a lot more. But the president blasted hopes of further gains by declaring, in the address ad-dress he made in the senate in presenting present-ing the peace treaty: v "My services and all the information I possess will be at your disposal and at the disposal of your committee on foreign relations at any time either informally or In session, as you may prefer, and I hope that you will not hesitate to make use of thorn." Since this cordial offer of co-operation nothing further has been heard from the. president's critics of his indisposition to consult with tho senate. The only question ques-tion now before the political house, so to speak, is how the president's offer can be refused without stultification. Sundry Civil Bill Veto. The second political move made by the president was when he vetoed the sundry civil bill, because in it the Republicans had limited to $8,000,000 the amount made available for the vocational rehabilitation rehabilita-tion of disabled soldiers. The administration administra-tion had recommended an appropriation of $12,000,000 for this purpose. The president, presi-dent, in his veto, shrewdly focused the attention of the country on the fact that the Republicans were willing to do only half as much for the disabled soldiers as his administration thought ought to be done. The Republicans could not muster enough votes to pass the bill over the president's veto, and so the Democrats are now in position to make the claim to I the soldier element that the additional ?G, 000, 000 appropriation to aid the disabled dis-abled soldiers must be credited to Democratic Demo-cratic determination. Daylight Saving Veto. The president scored in the same way polici tally with his veto of the agricultural agricul-tural bill because of the provision in that hill repealing the daylight saving law. There was a tremendous sentiment against the repeal of that law in all of the big centers of population. The Republi- , cans, having failed to pass the hill over , the president's veto, the Democratic party ' claims credit for saving the law. It was what they term the "political ' tricks" the president has played for and 1 taken since his return more than the positive statement of ex -Sena tor Iewis on the subject which convinn-s Republicans Repub-licans that the president certainly will seek a third torm if conditions are favor-aide favor-aide to his renomination by his party. I |