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Show could have been found than for Bryan to have taken what might have been construed con-strued as an unduly prominent part in the administration' affairs. It Is admitted ad-mitted that In a tense Bryan's hands are tied. Also, he knows the knot. Whea he wants to, he can untie It. Th large, gaudy, new precedent the president has set Is concealed In hit threat to go to the people If congress does not enact the sort of a tariff bill the executive wanta. Do not forget that President Wilson It i student of th science sci-ence of government! He did not do that very thing in New Jersey without a complete com-plete understanding of Its meaning. "It amounts to a change In our system sys-tem of government, to conform so fsr as our st forma wilt permit with the Kng llsh model." said a man who assumed to talk with a direct knowledge of the president's presi-dent's thought. "In England, if the government gov-ernment falls to secure Its end in parliament, parlia-ment, parliament Is dissolved and tb question Is taken to the people. It la a direct referendum "Mr. Wilson will do just that. He will not even wait to veto the bill before tiring the grass. Th very last thing that a congressman desires la to have some on agitating the egga in hla nest- Even a senator, who Is only hatched one In six years, disapprove" of any one messing around the Incubator. President Wilson la convinced that the new plan will be followed fol-lowed by t hose who follow him. It Is likely that th plan to change the date of congreaslonal elections will have his approval. If It become a law there can be no lawmaking by lame ducks' hereafter. here-after. A biennial session, a direct appeal ap-peal to the peonte by th president la esse of need, and no more legislation until un-til the new men take their seats will be near enough th English plan to serve." Not that the president's tariff wishes wil be opposed by th Democrats In the house. There are so many of them that a fvv runaways can be spared, and if enough to defeat the bill desert It would be a o'nplete reversal of partv policy-It policy-It Is In the senate that th bill will be shot at. Two augar Democrats from Louisiana, Lou-isiana, two wool and sugar Democrats from Colorado, and Dalsh of Montana, who has no fancy for free wool, may try to rllp off the two schedules f rem th omnibus bill. , Wilson Precedent Maker BY HERBERT COREY. - WASHINGTON. May 17. This president presi-dent makes precedents. Therefore he lt regarded with doubt from two alleles. Resident Washington treasures the usual and the expected. It lives on tradition. Mr. Wilson's sack coat, when every oilier president has worn the sad livery of the undertaker, seems freakish and undignified. "Andrt-w Jarkson wouldn't have worn that thing," says resident Washington, regarding you out of wan eyes. rolitical Washington li white eyed from snoiher csuse. President Wilson has adopted a new relation toward congress. con-gress. Political Washington as found In Ik the house and senate doesn't like It, W but frankly admits that It may have to cultivate an appetite. ' "Other presidents have dealt with us," said one old timer. "And when they didn't we dealt with them. But this man tells us what to do and a fear is growing tn niv tntnd that we may do it," Theoretically there are three co-ordinate branch t government. Practically one alwsys dominates the others. For a time the supreme court was supreme u fact. Then the legislative branch began to threaten the supreme court with reprisals re-prisals and to put various presidents In their various places. Of late years the executive has been sssumlng sn unetiusl importance or has been returning tu that importance tt had n the early days of our government. Mr. Wilson's theory Is that a dispute between ths executive and the legislative branches can only be ssttled by an sppeal to the sole higher power at the polls. "That, observed a regretful congressman, congress-man, "Is where he has us by the short hair. Whether he's right or wrong, w can lose every two years. And that goes for both parties " Perhaps the full mesnliu; of President Wilson's return to old precedent in the reading of his address to congress has not been grasped. In the future he will not carry a mess of departmental lumber lum-ber on his messages. "The heads of the department," said cue of Ms near friends, "are to tell congress con-gress their hopes and feats In separata report. When the president has something some-thing to say. he'll say it alone. He doesn't believe tn hsmperlng the punch." Not that he plans to elocute every time a thought crosses him. For the most part lis will send the old fashioned messages. It la only wjien he wants tn hammer somsthins; lnt congress that he wtll read his address. Political Washington Wash-ington admits that he lias considerable savvy. All congressmen and most senators sena-tors were thrust upwsrd Into honor be- aiue they knew how to Initiate, direct, di-rect, and energise the thrust. As politicians poli-ticians they applsnd a good bit of politics. poli-tics. "All the same." said one who Is frankly frank-ly opposed to Wilson and all his works, "he's apt to overdo It. It will b perfect per-fect lv easy for him to tie the grass across Ms own trail." That's a fine new precedent he has established in the matter of tha president's presi-dent's room at the capltol. too. The president's room is a dainty, tiny, golden, gaudy bandbox of a place, designed to impress the rural trade. Other president' presi-dent' have used It only as a reception room. In the closing hours of a session they hf.ve signed bills there, to avoid d-isy d-isy In transmission to the white house. President Wilson plans to occupy- that room during hours of storm. Balking legislators, having1 been roped by ihe presidential outriders, can be dragged in. bucking snd bawling. He's actually made food on t his heret lesi proposition. He wanted to see the Democratic members of a committee the other day. They were too busy to go to the white house to see htm. "I'll go to the rapltol to see you, then." said he. He walked through the tape of an-"th-r tradition when he Indicated his desire that the Democratic house caucus le .in open one. Never befure o far as s cursory scratching of memory reveals has sny president gone so far with his party organisation. It is in line with his comparative candor to the newspa.ier men. It ts not his desire to be quoted directly. But at occasional intervals tb accredited correspondents are called In. a formal statement Is issued to them on some matter at issue, snd the president may elucidate It further. It was not like that In (he olden day," say the elder correspondents who, by the way, are beyond measure grieved n-1 depressed by the new plan. "We used to g-t a owlet tipbuss, buss. In th eager ear- snd then our stories were repudiated if thev didn't Tilt tb' pop iiar ttv It gsve a fellow more chance See'" ' Resident Washington, even more than political Washington. I turning pele and e eking at its buttons because President Uson seems to be acting as hia own secretary of state to some extent Ordinarily Ordi-narily the presidential 1 1 tough t cm such matter as the withdrawal from the Chinese Chi-nese loan, the recognition of that republic, re-public, the Mexican situation, would have nen given out through the department - of state. Mr Wilson has talked where 1 Secretary Brvan has remained silent & Resident Washington doesn't bother W about reasons. It only eee that a tim " honored way of doin things has Keen - I violated. Political Waehtnjrton believes that it see In this proof of a thorough understanding between the president a no Ma premier No more sure way of at -trsctlnsj criticism and inviting dissenaloi . f i igjrr - |