Show BREAKS OF 0 YEARS PRESIDENT WILSON RENEWS OLD CUSTOM HIS djs MESSAGE TO CONGRESS after lapse of one hundred and teri ten years the nations chief executive has delivered message to congress ISY by word of mouth washington president dent woodrow wilson on tuesday bridged the gap that for over a century has baa separated tho the executive and legislative branches of tho the government not as a cog in a 0 machine not as an impersonal political entity nor as a mere mera department ol of government but as the human president lie ho went to cong congress Tess to speak about the tariff standing before the senate benato and house of representatives in joint ses slon as no other president lias has don for more than a hundred and years president wilson stated sim aim ply and tersely what lie he thought should be done for the welfare of oc th tb country and asked ills hla legislative col leagues man to man to id in keep ing the pledges of their party with a sweep ot of decision that shat shab precedent the president brushed aside all imaginary boun darles between congress and the dexeo autive office and rescued himself as h hi expressed it from that isolated isi aal of jealous authority which the th presidency had come to be regarded congress somewhat startled the th other day when it heard that the president had bad determined to 1 dealvez hla his message on the tariff ly by word ol 01 mouth adouth had prepared for a eremon 3 ot of unusual importance and such it was yet when president wilson ap an rived in the midst of the great as sem blage riding through throngs 01 ol cheering people in the streets and later looking up into galleries crowd ed with privileged ticket holders he h seemed after all what he said he was a human being trying to operate cooperate co with other human beings in a corn com imon anon service when the much heralded incident was over congress seemed pleased and the president was waa delighted IR H expressed himself to arlenda as im pressed with the dignity of the occa slon and some of his confidants I 1 balei a tei declared that he left the capitol greatly relieved to think that after all hit precedent smashing had not been such a cataclysmic thing as some aldei heads had predicted the presidents visit to the capitol was waa brief lasting about a quarter 0 01 an hour |