Show CONGRESS HEARS presidents address to goth both houses esquite Is quite short 4 RAIL TROUBLES LESl copat FIRST further legislation on that line la Is strongly recommended ded bill giving foreign n born commerce merce promoters frie free hand necess necessary ary washington Washing torf deci dee 5 president wit son today ills his mes message to both houses of congress in joint sea slona the TIfe address was V if rig is follows Gent gentlemen lemed of in fulfilling kahli at this time the e duty laid upon me by the constitution of co corn M to you from time to time Inform information atlo 11 i of ali alie e state of the union and and recommending io to your lour consideration T 1 such legislative measures regas ns may be judged necessary and expedient I 1 shall continue the practice which I 1 h hope ope has been acceptable to 3 sou aut of leaving johie to the reports of the several hen heads ds executive tive do departments the elaboration 01 ol of the detailed needs ot 0 the public service and confine myself to those matters of more general public policy with which ilitch it seems seems necessary and fen feasible sible to deal at the present session of the congress I 1 realize the limitations of time under which you w will act at this se session slon and shall make my sug gestI few a us possible T but there wei e esome I 1 some things left nt at the last session which there will now be time fo complete and which it seems I 1 necessary in the interest of thi the public to doat do at once jn in ilie alie first place it seems to me imperatively ively necess necessary nry that the earliest possible consideration and action should be accorded tile the remaining measures af of the program of settlement t nen tand and regulation which I 1 had occasion to recommend to you at the close of af your last view of the public ll 11 dangers disclosed by tho the difficulties difficult les which then existed and which still unhappily y continue ia to exist between the railroads of the country aind nd their locomotive engineers ca conductors and trainmen railway troubles first I 1 then recommended first immediate provision for the enlargement and administrative beor gani of the interstate commerce commission along lines embodied in the bill recently passed by the house of representatives and now awaiting action by the senitte senate in order that the pili mission may be enabled to deal with the many great and various duties now devolving upon it with a promptness and thoroughness which nire with its present constitution and means of action practically impossible See second bild the establishment of an right hour day us as the leial legal basis alike af pf of work and of wages in the employment of all railway employees who are actually engaged anthe work of operating trains in interstate transportation third the authorization authorisation of the appointment by the hie president of a small body of men to observe the actual results in exper experience lerie of the adoption of tile the eight hour day in railway transportation por tation alike for the men and tor for the railroads fourth explicit approval by the congress of the consideration by the interstate ter state coni commerce merce commission of an increase of freight rates to meet such additional expenditures by the railroads as moy may have been rendered necessary by the nd adoption option of the eight hour dagand alny and which have not been offset by administrative readjustments and economies should the facts dis closeal clocea justify the increase Ff an an amendment of the existing federal statute which provides fb for the mediation conciliation and arbitration of such mch controversies as the present by adding to io it ft a provision that in case the methods of accommodation now provided tor for should fall a full public investigation of the merits of every auch dispute shall be instituted and completed before a strike or lockout may lawfully be attempted and sixth tile the lodgment in th the e hands of the executive i e of the power in case of military n necessity ec eslay to 0 take control of such portions and such rolling stock of the railroads rall roads of theroun the country as may be required for military use and to operate them for military purposes with authority to draft into the military seduce of the united states sueh such train crews and administrative officials as the mhd circumstances circumstances require for or their heir safe anfe and efficient use Renews Hla recommendations the second and third of the c recommendations the ton congress gress immediately acted on it established the eight hour flay dEry as the le legal g al basis of bt work mid and wages in train service and lt it authorized zed tho appointment of a com mission to observe and report upon the practical results deeming these the ahe measures most immediately needed but tt postponed action upon the other sug suggestions 9 est tons until in an opportunity should be offered cor a more deliberate consideration of them the fourth recommendation omi ommen rien dation I 1 10 lo do not deem it necessary to jo renew the power powe of the interstate ter state commerce commission to g grant rant an increase ie nitea on the ground referred to te clear and a by the congress with regard to suck such a matter might seem to draw ln In question the of the conf coin alula Blon or its inclination im to do justice when there Is no reason to doubt either ft the other suggestions the increase in the interstate commerce commissions membership and in its facilities for performing its manifold duties the provision for full public investigation and assessment of industrial disputes disputed and the grant to the executive of tile the power pomer to to control tied operate the railways when necessary in time of war war or other I 1 like public ll 11 cessley I 1 now very earnestly renew the necessity for such legislation Is manifest and pressing those jhb dinv anve j e jn trusted us with wah the responsibility and apty dut of serving and them in such matters would find it t liard hard 1 I 1 believe to excuse a failure to net act apon upon these grave matters or any unnecessary postponement of 61 atlon action upon up on them not got only does doe 6 the L atte interstate estate commerce commission now giov find it practically impossible with it its s present membership mems bers lilli and to per perform forin its great functions function 6 promptly and thoroughly 1 but it Is not unlikely ely that it may presently la bt found advisable to idd add to its duties still others equally heavy and exacting it must first be perfected as un an administrative instrument the cannot find and should not consent to re remain any longer exposed I 1 to profound lal disturbances for lack of additional means of arbitration find concil conciliation ln tion which the con congress gressman gress sean can easily find and promptly 8 supply ply and all will agree e that alai musts be no doubt doolit as to the power of tile the executive to make immediate and erupted use of the rall railroads roads for the con centi atlon oatlie of the military forces of tile the nation whoever they are needed and whenever they are needed this Is a program of regulation prevention and administrative efficiency which argues its own case in the ilie mere mere statement of it with regard to one oft off its items the in increase cren se in the efel afi clen clency cy odthe of the interstate domni commerce erce commission 1 the house hous of cepres representatives has tili already eady acted its action needs only the he concurrence of f the senate for control and operation I 1 would hesitate to recommend aai and I 1 dare say the congress would hesitate liesl tato to act upon the suggestion should J I 1 make it that any man in any occupy 1 tion should be obliged by law to continue in id an employment which he desired to leave to pass a law which forbade or prevented the individual workman to leave ills his work before r receiving the approval of society in doing so would be to adopt a new principle I ciple into our jurisprudence which I 1 take it for granted we are not prepared prepare 4 to introduce but the proposal that thai the operation of the hallways lall ways of the country shall not be stopped or interrupted by the concerted action of ol 01 or bodies of men until a public investigation shall have been Institute ld tf which hall make the whole question at issue plain binin fb for the judgment of of the opinion of the nation Is not to propose apropo e any such principle it Is based upon the very different principle that the concerted action of powerful bodies of men shall not be permitted to stop tile the industrial du processes of the at any rate before the nation shall have had j an opportunity to acquaint itself with the merits of the case case as between employee and employer time to porm it its s opinion upon an impartial statement of the merits and opportunity to consider alt all practicable means mans of coli conciliation ellia or arbitration 1 I can see nothing in that proposition but the justi justifiable flable safeguarding by society of the necessary processes of its I 1 very life there Is nothing arbitrary or unjust in it unless At it be arbitrarily J and unjustly done it can and should be done with a full and scrupulous regard for the interests and liberties of all co concerned as well as for the permanent interests of society itself other legislation urged three matters of capital importance await the action of the senate which have already been acted upon by bythe the tile house of representatives the bill which seeks coextend to extend greater freedom of combination to those engaged in promoting the foreign commerce comme ice of the country than Is now thought by some to 13 be legal under the terms of the laws against gainni monopoly the bill ninen amending din the present organic law of porto ri rico co and the bill proposing a more thor ough systematic te matIc regulation of th the e expenditure of money in elections commonly called the corrupt practices act I 1 need not labor my advice that these measures be enacted into law their urgency lies lieg in the manifest stanco stances s which lender their ad adoption option at this time no tonly opportune but necessary even delay would seriously the interests of the country and of xe the government immediate passage of the bill to regulate ul the expenditure of money in elections may seem to be less necessary than khan the immediate enactment of the other ruea measures to which I 1 refer because at least two years will elapse 1 before another election in which federal offices abejo are to be filled but it 1 jv would greatly relieve the public mind if this important matter yere were dealt with while the circumstances and the dangers to the public moral morale s of the present res method of obtaining and spending campaign funds stand clear under recent i observation and the methods methodi of expenditure can bet frankly studied in the light ot of present experience and a delay would have the further very serious disadvantage of postponing ne action until another election was at liand hand and some special object connected with it might bethought be thought tobe to be in the mind of those who urged it atlon action can call be taken ri now w with foots for gul danceland without wl tit out suspicion of partisan purpose I 1 shall not argue at length mhd desirability of giving a freer hand band in the matter ut of combined and concerted ef fort to those who shall undertake iho essential enterprise of building u up P our export trade that enterprise will IL A presently will immediately lias indeed already assumed a magoki tude unprecedented knour in our experience we have pot the necessary las trumen les for its it li 11 deemed to be bd doubtful whether the could be created create d up upon on till an hv scale under bno our pres present prescha cht laws V 4 should clear away nil all legal obstacle and create a basis og of undoubted lav iny for it which will give freedom walthou aitho u pel permitting mining unregulated license tin wing tiling must be lone done now because tin till opportunity Is here and may escape tu lu if we hesitate or delay delai porto ricos needs the argument for the prop yec wie amendments of the law of por eor to etleo illco Is brief and conclusive tin present laws governing the island un an regulating tile the rights and privileges 6 its people are not just we have hac cre re abed expectations of extended paivi lege which we have not satisfied there Is id uneasiness among the ve epif of the island and even a doubt with regard to our Intent intention low arning them which alch the adoption 0 the pend pending iti measure would happily re cioe wedo ve do not doubt what diat ceisl eI sl to do in any essential particular wa W ought to do it at once there are other matters already nd ad danced to the stage of c conference inference 1 bo e tween the to 0 houses of which it ll it not necessary that I 1 should speak some borne practicable basis of agreement agre emen concerning them will no doubt be fount foun and action taken upon them inasmuch as is tills this Is gentlemen ably the last occasion I 1 shall have t address the sixty fourth congress I 1 hope vint that you sou will mill permit me to with what wha t genuine pleasure and bitis faction I 1 have co cooperated ed with wit iu 1 if the many measures of constructive construct IvA pol ley c with which you have im e enriched th legislative annals of the country ll it has been a privilege to labor to in suet company I 1 take the liberty of con you jou upon the completion ol 01 a record of rare an anc distinction |