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Show PRESIDENT WILSON TALKS TOCONGRESS SAYS EUROPEAN TRIP FIRST DUTY TO NATION, PRINCIPLES OF PEACE BEING AT STAKE. Promise to Keep Congress Fully Informed In-formed and Ak Support In Ml-elon. Ml-elon. Recommend Careful Study of Railway Problem. Washington. In un address to congress con-gress In Joint session on December 2, President Woodrow Wilson formnlly nnnounccd his intention to go to Paris for thu peace conference, saying tho ullled governments hnvo accepted principles prin-ciples enunciated by him for peace and It Is tils paramount duty to bo present. Tho president said be will be In close touch by cablo nnd wireless and that congress will know ull that ho does on tho other side. Aik Co-operation, llefcrrlng to bis announcement that tlio French and llrltlsh governments hud removed all cable restrictions upon tho trnnsiuls8loji of new of tho conference to America, the president said ho bad taken over the American coble- systems on expert ndvlco to as to mnko u unified system available. Ho expressed tho hope that ho would have tlio co-operation of tho public and of congress, saying that through tho cobles und wireless con-fitant con-fitant counsel and ndvlco would bo possible. The Railroad Problem. .Much of tho address wns devoted to tho railroad problem, for which tlio president suld ho now had no solution to offer. Ho recommended careful study by congress, snylng It would bo n disservice dis-service to tho country nnd to tho railroads rail-roads to permit n return to old conditions con-ditions under private management without modifications. Tho president declared ho stood ready to release tho railroads from government control whenever a satisfactory satis-factory plan of readjustment could bo worked out. Expects Peace by Sprlnn. The president said ho hoped to seo n formal declaration of penco by treaty "by tho tlmo spring has come." The new three-year naval building program was Indorsed because, tlia president said, It would bo unwlso to Attempt to ndjust tlio American program pro-gram to n future world policy us yet undetermined. Advocate. Suffrage for Women. Paying tribute to tho people's conduct con-duct In wnr ho spoko-purtlcularly of tho 'work of women and again appealed ap-pealed for woman suffrugo by federal amendment Deciurlng ho had no "private (thought of purpose" In going to France, but that ho regnrded It as hlB highest duty, tho president added: "It Is now my duty to play my full part In making pood what they (America's soldiers) offered their life's blood to obtnln." Reconstruction Programs No definite program of reconstruction reconstruc-tion can bo outlined now, Mr Wilson suld. Hu expressed the hopo thnt congress would not object to conferring con-ferring upon tho wur trndo boord or some other agency tho right of fixing export priorities to nssuro shipment of food to sturvlng people abroad. Future Taxation. As to tnxution. tho president Indorsed In-dorsed tho plan for levying six billion dollars In 1010 and for notifying tho public In advanco that the 1020 levy 'yvltt bo $4,000,000,000, Tito president concluded nfter speaking speak-ing forty-two mlnutos nnd left tho chamber amidst applause limited to Iho Democratic side. Interruptions of the address for questions, which bad been threatened by somo Itepnbllcnn members of tho house, did not materialize. |
