Show Bulldozing the Senate clamor evidently is to bo be another powerful powerful power power- P PUBLIC ful weapon the President will employ to hasten his liLs tariff legislation through the United States States' Senate His Ills insistence upon night sessions of tho the house and the thc application of the garrote to the usual freedom of debate uncovers ers a n well-defined well plan of campaign in which that body is to enact the measure with feverish ic haste Immediate Immediato transmission to the time Senate will follow and tho the House will adjourn from rom day to day marking time while the thc hoo bally-hoo Lotteries batteries batteries bat Lot teries will be turned upon the tho Senate in a frantic endeavor to coerce that deliberate body into moving fast faster r than common Every other a avenue of administrative and ond political activity ity will win be bc closed in order that public attention without distraction may be focused upon tho the upper house But nut it is not probable that time the senators will permit themselves to to be bo stampeded Wiser iser and more experienced executives cJ than Mr fr Wilson have hn broken their influence in iii vain ain against tho the unyielding rock of senatorial traditions and courtesies The Tho basic idea upon which the e fathom fathers of the tho nation the legislative branch of tho the government govern govern- ment was wag that tho the Senate by its longer tenure should be lie the deliberative body that would guard against legislative c e surrender to a popular sentiment that might be but temporary and ill It was assumed as assumed as- as that the tho lower house always fresh from tho the battlefield o of polities politics would bo of more ready and at times ill advised response This principle has been beon followed by the Senate with excellent results If there is a widespread public sentiment in favor of Mr I r. r Wilsons Wilson's tariff policy senatorial debate upon time the bill into which ho has hns incorporated his ideas will but intensify that sentiment Nothing harmful can accrue from following the time usual Senate customs Haste is tho the handmaid d of error and it is fortunate for tho the American people that the greatest lawmaking la body in tho time world has ample means to protect itself From those who would drive dri it oven though among the he insist insistent ones onca is numbered the President of the I Unit United d States i I I |