| Show WILSONS ri LSON MESSAGE TO THE CONGRESS senate and house in joint ses sion hear address of the P resident president HE MAKES FEW suggestions further legislation for settlement and ad R regulation ties of ff R railway ilsy labor D DIB put hel field imperatively no feces ary by the chief M magistrate goil lost washington doc dec 5 ube senate and ad house met in joint session today and ad heard president wilson a message which waa as as aa follows Glin gentlemen lemn of ties the congress 1 in fulfilling at title time the duty laid upon m me by the constitution of corn muni sting to you yoi from time liine to time i information of ties the state of the file union and recommending to your consider con I 1 it alon such les latIl measures as aa may 1 be judged necessary and expedient I 1 I 1 shall continue the ahr practice which I 1 hope has been acceptable to you of leaving to the reports of the several heads bonds of the executive departments the elaboration of the detailed needs need of ilia public service and confine myself to thos e matters of 0 more general pub ditc itc PAH policy y with tb which it t seems necessary sary and feasible to deal at the pres ent ant session of the congress I 1 realize the limitations of time un on der which you will necessarily mc act I 1 at this sessio and all shall make it my ug sug as few or ap fus possible v this but there were some ome thin go left undone at the last session which there will now be time to complete and which it seems in the interest of the public to do ut at a once 1 in the first place it seems t to 0 me ma lat im nely necessary that th the e earliest or 1 last possible IQ consid consideration ration thione and action should be all accorded allden ded the remaining measures of the brou prou program of settle ment t and regulation which I 1 had bad occa slon to recommend to you at file close of your last session 1 in view few of the pub 11 lie ding dangers c r disclosed bv be the doted difficulties which then the existed end and which still unhappily continue to exist be between betocke the railroads of the country and their locomotive engineers conductors and trainmen railway troubles trouble first I 1 then recommended first immediate provision precision for the enlargement tit and administrative re reorganization go ala ion of the interstate cont commerce merce co commission nd ion along I 1 g the lines embodied in 11 the bill recently 1 pass pawed it bv be the house houe of representatives so id and now new awaiting it 9 action a bv be the senate in order that the marm 0 o may p be a enabled led to deal with ill B the e many say great and v various s rious duties now dv devolving olg upon it ft with mill I 1 a prompt ties ness and thoroughness which ncr are wit with its III present constitution an and it ia means eans of action practically impossible second the i of in an eight hour day as the legal basis alike of work and of wages in the employ employment ot of III all rall rally railway y employees who obo are actu all engaged io in the file work vork of oper a ng trains in Inter intestate tate transports lo 10 ion A third the authorization of the up bv be I 1 the a president of of a small in body of men it to observe the e aetna actual results in experience of the adopt adoption 1 an or of th tho eight hour day in railway transportation potter por tation on alike for the men and for the ra railroads read fourth explicit approval ill by the con A gress of the consideration by tit the interstate to ter rate state commerce commission of an increase ot of freight rates at to rest meet arch cabbil additional I 1 expenditures b by ill the rail mil roads ad as A mav A ha have e been r rendered amder A esry by the ad adoption eption of the eight hour day and which he have not been n oft ta it et ill bv administrative mail readjustments at n and economies economics should the facts dis closed justify the iacre increase fifth an amendment of the existing federal statute alich w aich provides provide for the tion tim con conciliation i on and arbitration f such controversies air r es aa the present so ill bv adding to it a provision 0 n that in case the methods method of accommodation mods now low fail provided for should fail a full P public u arc investigation of the merits of e every v 1 such dispute shall be fielt instituted lt doted and ad inflicted completed before a strike or lockout anav amov iv lawfully fully be attempted and sixth the lodgment in th ill hands of the executive of the pax power or n case of if cali military flary mas necessity sity to tako control of such ch portions portion and ad lucli ch roll it ing stock of the railroads of toe the coun itter try na As may ey be re required for ell its I 1 we use and to operate them tor for military pur purposes poes with authority to draft into the military of the unit united d states such och train crews ces and alve native officials a as the circumstances ale sr their that safe and efficient we ove re kenw his hia recommendations ahe a he second and third of these rec fee the e ron congress gres immediately I 1 acton acted it e established lidda bed the eight h hour day an aa the legal bis basis of work mal nd arges 1 in train test service and it au harlod the app appointment dicent of a co corn 1 I to ch observe a and report upon the p t re t bal results re deeming the thap the mo suc matt immediately needed cited but it postponed action upon the other sug suRges esti tlona no until nn an opportunity ile utson should 1 old agn be offered d for a more it ol 01 coo aider atlon ot of them to the f fourth ill recommendation ommen dation I 1 do out not deem A it feces CC pary eary to renew the poter power of it the interstate ter state Com commerce merve t to gra gr grant a 0 an increase ot of rates on the ground referred to la is indisputably clear end and a recommend ti alon by the cong congress s with to regard gar it to each a matter might sac seem m to I 1 draw raw 1 in A question I 1 allan the scope of the c corn m mission so a authority or its ita inclination to do justice when hon there is i no reason to either the he other suggestions th the increase 1 in the interstate later state commerce co blona ie bemb i ship and ad in 1 its facilities for pelf oming its iti manifold duties the P provision islon for full public investigation and ad assessment t of if industrial and ad the grant to the executive of the P power r t to control suit and up operate to the ran rail davs when sion necessary in time of if war A or other alk like public Coes necessity salty I 1 now very earnestly estly renew ahe necessity tor far such 11 manifest and pressing I 1 those hose v who he have In trusted us with the old and duty of serving and safeguarding them 1 in such nuch matters would cold find bral it hard I 1 believe to excuse a failure to act up upon these grave glee matters or adv unnecessary postponement of action upon them not ot only does the interstate co corn mem commission now find it cally impossible with its present mom mem bC barship slip and ad organization to perform lis its great functions promptly and thor hughly but it I 1 Is not at an unlikely arely that it may p presently aly be found mil advisable isable to add to its duties still others equally heavy and exacting it must first be perfected ted as an administrative lustra ment t the country cannot and ad should not at consent to remain any longer Cc exposed posed to profound industrial disturbances for far lack jack of additional means of arbi arbitrate trat tire old and conciliation which the con gr gress a can easily and promptly supply an and d all 11 will agree that there must be no doubt as to the power of the tha exeen it tive to make immediate and use a of the ra railroads for the con 1 do cant lation of the mi military t forces of the nation at in Avla wherever rover they h cy are needed and art whenever hen it they are as needed cited this Is a program of regulation prevention so tl and ad administrative effle efficiency laucy which ability or argues goes it its own case as 1 in the file mere statement of ft tr ith h regard eg rd I 1 to A an one it r efte of its items the i increase n C r ee 1 in the efel ea clency y of the inter interstate state coul commerce aarre co corn into bialon ion the house of representatives lv he has already acted its ito act needs a it only the concurrence of the a sea senate at for control central and ad Op operation erU I 1 would hesitate to recommend and bdate I 1 dare say the congress would hesitate to act upon the suggestion should I 1 make it that any man in any occupation should be obliged by law to con been 1 in an employment which he de sired to leave to pass a law which forbade or prevented the individual work workman to team leave his work before to re the approval ap pp 1 of society 1 in do de leg ing so would be to adopt a new prin soni ordil did ciple into our or jurisprudence which I 1 take it for far granted we are am not prepared to introduce but the proposal that the ope operation of the railways of the country oun try sa s1 claff not at be a topped stopped or let interrupted by the concerted action of or welled bodies of men until a public investigation shall have been instituted which h ll 11 shall make the whole question aap aall boada at issue a plain for the judgment of the opinion plate of 1 ill the nation Is not to propose any such principle it is based upon the very different principle that the con cerneil action of powerful bodies of men shall not be permitted to stop the in du dustral processes of the nation at any rate before the nation it shall hall have had bad an opportunity to acquaint qI nt itself with ith the merits erl of the case II as be between twee em cm pit ploce se and ad employer I 1 time line to form its IN opinion upon an impartial statement 0 the merits and opportunity to c con dc tb sider all 11 practicable means of concilia tion or arbitration 1 I co can see nothing 1 in that propos proposition iden 1 but tittles the justifiable safeguarding citing by A so C lety clety of the necessary processes of its is very cry it life fe there is nothing arbi or unjust to in it unless it be arba raj and unjustly done it can and should be done with a full and tons lous regard for the interests and liber fiber uc ties of all 1 I 1 concerned as well as for it the pelman uit tnt interests of society itself ot other her legislation urged three matters matte es of capital lV importance ortance abai await t the action of the senate let which have already been acted upon by the house of representatives it alie e bill which seeks to extend greater fr freedom of combination to those engaged in promoting doting the foreign commerce of it alie country antry than is now new thought by some man to be legal igal under the terms of the I 1 lawa against baguinat monopoly ohp bill amending the present organic law of porto rico suit and the bill pe proposing poling a mole moia thorough and ad systematic regulation of the e of money mc 1 in elections C corn ft maaia call d the corrupt practices practice act I 1 I 1 need not labor my nelce that these thee mes measures be enacted let into low law then theli or urgency alea is 1 in tit alie manifest C circum ma stances stance which render reader their adoption at tills this time not only opportune but feces afsar eon ei en delay would seriously the interests interest of tl alie Is country and of the file goval macer immediate passage of the bill to reg mg little the expenditure of money C in fiffe tins way may seem beem to be less we aarl than the immediate enactment enat ment of the tha other the inca 1 BurH to A which aich I 1 tell refer be aitor elauf will cile cause it at least two yeara isam before another election in which td fed erol cral offices office are to tie be filled but it would greatly rell relieve the public mind if this important important matter were deat dealt with while the 1 I instances wit and the don dan gers gera to the pub public in morals ot of the pres ent car method of all obtaining I 1 mcg and spending ban campaign funds fault at stand d 1 clear I under rc mill observation and the method of 0 studied in I 1 expenditure can be the light of present experience and a delay would have bae the further very serious serums disadvantage of postponing po ahard all action until another C election tic waa at hand and ad some arms special ob object eject connected with it might t he be thought to be in the mind of those does e who urged it action ran co be taken now w with facca acta tor for guidance and without suspicion of 0 partisan purpose kurpa 1 I 1 sha shall I 1 I 1 not argue at length the desirability ald i by of giving a freer e hand bond in 11 the las matter of combined combine ad and concerted effort to those who he shall hall undertake the essential enterprise of building up our mill export expert trade thet that enterprise will presently Plesent pi evently lY w in immediately isse assume he has indeed already assumed Is a magnitude unprecedented in 1 our experience ile e have not the necessary dinst instrumentalities men tall tali it les ties for its ita prosecution it I 1 19 deemed to be doubtful whether vieth r they could be created upon an adequate scale under our present letyr laws w we should door clear away ablay all 11 legal ast 1st adea lo and create a be basis Is of nn undoubted doubted law tor for it which al will gille eue freedom fr edom without permitting I 1 unregulated rog nied efte license a th thing must be done now new because the tha opportunity Is here and may ese escape pe us Q it if we hesitate or delay porto ricos needs need the argument for the proposed amendments int or cal ments of the organic law of porto rico Is brief and conclusive the present laws law governing th the island and reg regulating I 1 lating the rights and privileges privilege of ita III people are not net just jest nv e have created c of extended privilege which we have not satisfied there thera Is uneasiness among the people 0 of the island and even a suspicious auspicious doubt with regard 1 to our intentions concerning them which the adoption ol of the pending measure would ld happily remove ore we wein do not doubt what we wish to do in any essential particular we might to 0 aci it at once there are other matters already advanced to the stage of conference between the M two bous houses of which it I 1 is n not necessary that I 1 should speak locae some practicable pron t leable basis of agreement mam lat concer concerning A ing the them will it no an ded doubt t be f found d and ad action atle tall taken upon them ies inasmuch conCh as this Is it gentlemen probably the last occasion I 1 shall have he to address the sty sixty fourth comit congress cov I 1 hope that yo you will per permit it me to say with what shut gel genuine A ine pleasure and satis faction I 1 have e co operated with you yen in the many measures ures of constructive polley policy with which you have enriched the legislative annals of the country it has been a privilege cloge to labor in such opy I 1 ta take ke the liberty of co con granulating iou ou upon the completion of a record of rare serviceableness and nd distinction |
