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Show DEMOCRACY IN CONTROLA YEAR Close Co-operation Has Reigned Reign-ed Throughout Administration Adminis-tration of Pres. Wilson. PRECEDENTS FORMED Message Advocating Repeal of Tolls Exemption at Canal Tomorrow. Washington, D. C, March 4. The Democratic 'administration was a, year old today. Just twelve months ago at noon, AVoodrow Wilson stood on the east front of the capitol and took tho oath of office, ushering the Demcracy into, control of all branches of the national government for tho first time In twenty years. At the White House, in executive quarters, generally, and in congressional congres-sional circles, the day served to recall re-call the work of the fleeting year. Members of congress realized that except for a short breathing spell at the Christmas holidays they had been in practically continuous session. ses-sion. From the time the president broke a century-old precedent and stood before be-fore an assembled congress to urge the enactment of a low tariff, close cooperation co-operation has reigned between the chief executive and the leaders of the dominant party in congress. The enactment of a tariff law on October 3, 1913, making vital changes in the duties on imports was followed by tho signing of a banking and curren cy act on December 23, 1913. These two laws and the recent ratification of the arbitration treaties are the things which the president's friends were pointing to as the direct result of the intimate contact accomplished between the legislative and executive departments of the government Difficult Mexican Situation. Much of the president's time and energy has been spent In wrestling with a difficult Mexican situation a? yet unsolved, and a diplomatic tangle with Japan growing out of the passage by California of a new anti-alien land law. Lately he has been devoting himself to a rehabilitation of the foreign for-eign relations of the United States- the drafting with Secretary Bryan of new peace treaties, the settlement of the Panama canal tolls controversy with Great Britain, difficulties with Colombia growing out of the partition of Panama, and many other subjects of foreign policy. Fivo times the president has ap peared before congress, delivering messages on the tariff, the currency, curren-cy, Mexican affairs, the annual report on the "state of the union," and trust legislation- The recommendations of his annual message for the building of an Alaskan railway, rural credits, and anti-trust reform are still in the hands of congress with assurances assuran-ces of the leaders that they will b6 made laws before the expected adjournment ad-journment in June. Sixth Message Tomorrow. Interest in the president's sixth message was apparent when it became be-came known he would . address congress con-gress tomorrow in advocacy of the repeal re-peal of the clause exempting Amei can coastwise shipping from the payment of Panama canal tolls. Tho chief executive for the first time asks congress,' particularly his own party, to reverse itself, but his argument is that when congress last passed on tho question, international circumstances circum-stances such as now surround the question did not then exist The president believes a general distrust of the Intentions 'of the United States in construing treaties for its own selfish sel-fish benefit has arisen and because of the doubt existing on the Inter pretatlon of the Hay-Pavmcefote treaj ty, he urged the repeal of the much debated provision. The message tomorrow will be tho shortest of all. It is said to be lebs than 500 words long. All of Mr. Will son's addresses have been brief a3 compared with those of his predecessors. predeces-sors. Many Precedents Broken. Washington residents of many years to whom the ways and manners ot a president have been a matter of intimate in-timate observation have watched Prer Ident Wilson with interest. He has broken many precedents his ways have been quite informal but the most conspicuous characteristic of all Ills disinclination to making public speech es. He has declined hundreds ot Invitations to functions In all paTts ot the country. He has attended but one public banquet last night's ceremony cere-mony of the National Geographic so-clety, so-clety, when President Goethals was presented with a gold medal by Mr, Wilson on behalf of the society. His only other speeches were made to the American Red' Cross last December and one to the Daughters of the Am crican Revolution. His trips out of Washington have been few. While congress has been in session the president has made it a point to be at his desk continuously Mr. Wilson appears with a uniformed uniform-ed aide only at army or riavy functions, func-tions, and the motorcycles which used to precede the president's motor have been substituted by an automobile containing secret service men who follow inconspicuously behind, so that the president drives about Washington, Wash-ington, attracting but little attention. |