Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-11-12
Wilson inquiries as to Who
Wants Extra Session.
rendered Old Home in Columbia,
S. C, for Winter Home.
Flooded with Requests for Speech
es, But Is Declining All.

Princeton. NJ J.. Nov. 1.-President-
elect Wilson has his mind open on the
question of whether he shall call an
extra session of Congress to revise the
tariff.
He asked the newspaper correspond
ents. tonight, to obtain for him a list
of public men and business men who
had declared themselves for or against
the extra session. Though the Cover
nor has tried to follow closely in the
newspapers the various expressions OF
opinion. he said tonight, that he was
afraid lie might have missed some OF
them in his reading and that he was
anxious to get all the opinions before
him. Il have nos immediate intention
of making an announcement" said
the President elect. tonight.
A newspaper dispatch from Wash
ington was called to Mr.. Wilson's at
tention declaring that close friends OF
William Jennings Bryan said he would
decline a post in the cabinet.
oh, but AIR. Bryan did not say
that" remarked the Governor. that
was just a piece of dope"
The President elect was invited. to-
day. 70 spend his winters at Columbia.
:. c., his old home. William e Con
zales, editor of the Columbia State,
Simeon w. Gibbs. DR.. S. c. Mitchell
Mesident of the University of South
Carolina, J. f. Swearing, state super
lntendent of education, and James
Woodrow. a cousin of the President
elect and an Instructor in the -Univer-
SifW If a.
Governor Of t. pm. adse by the state
OF his boyhood home and that it was
being remodelled for his use as a win
ter home. 1t is probable that the Will
sons will spend part of their winters
there.
It's a very pretty sentiment" said
the President Elect, tonight. when
| was a half-grown boy my father
quilt house in Columbia, which my
mother altogether planned, and OF
course remember all the details of
its building and the development of
the little piece of property. These
gentlemen, today. came 10 tell me that
my friends in South Carolina had in
terested themselves TO get control of
that house, which they would fix up
use in the winters if | wanted to go
South while President. The house is
just near a very big and comfortable
hotel built since our time, that will
make it quite convenient for the Sec
retaries and their families to live
within easy reach of me. 1t seemed
TO me it was an ideal suggestion and
that 1t embodied very pretty sentf-
ment. In that little Southern home |
had perhaps the largest number of my
boyhood associations
The attention of the Governor was
called, today, TO a newspaper editorial
which said that his conceptions of the
Presidency could be found in his book
on Congressional Government
Il wrote that when / was % years
DID, said the Governor. Il haven't
read it since. SO / don't know whether
have changed my opinions or not"
The President-elect has had a great
number of requests for speeches. but said
he was declining them all as he had
plenty of work ahead of him. Two en-
gagements made before his election viii
be kept. one at Is dinner OF the Southern
Society in New York and one at BAN
quet of the Commercial Club of Chica-
go. both in January. He said. today
he probably would take in the~Jubilee
for him at Staunton, Va. his birthplace
on his way to the conference of gov
ernors at Richmond, Va, during Christ
mas week.
The governor said, tonight, that in his
vacation retreat he would go "incog.
He will call on the local officials and