The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-11-21
IN APRIL
WILSON ANNOUNCES HE WILL
CALL SPECIAL SESSION
OF CONGRESS. .
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Says Business Men Should Know OF
New ScheduIes-The Decision
Met With Approval In
Washington.

New York, Nov. IS. - Governor
Woodrow Wilson has announced that
Immediately after his Inauguration as
president of the United States he will
call IN extraordinary session of con
gress to v not later than April
Is for the purpose of revising the
tariff.
The p~resident-elect will sail for
Bermuda at once for a vacation and
will return on December 16. To set
at rest, in the meantime, speculation
as to what he would do with regard
to tariff revision, he issued the fol-
lowing statement:
viii Call Special Session.
II shall call congress together IN
extraordinary session not later than
April Is. l shall do this not only be-
cause l think that the pledges of the
party ought to be redeemed as prompt
ly as possible, but also because I
know it to be in the interest of bust
ness that all uncertainty as to what
the particular items of tariff revision
are to be should be removed as soon
as possible"
Public Men Favored Early Action.
Beyond this brief announcement,
the governor said he had nothing
further to say. Most Of the opinions
he had received from public men
seemed to be in favor of an extra
session, he said. The governor did
not intend to express himself about an
extra session so soon after his cleo
ton. Although he has favored the idea
of an extra session because the pres
ent arrangement would not bring the
new congress into session until 13
months after it's election, he had ex-
pected to spend more time in ascer-
tanning public opinion. The governor
felt that if an extra session were not
would be postponed for practically two
years.
Throughout the campaign he reiter-
ated he wanted an immediate revision
of the tariff and that Democratic lead
ers knew perfectly well how to pro-
coed about it. The governor was i'm
pressed by the argument that with an
early announcement as to an extra
Session Democratic leaders in con-
gress could begin to take counsel at
an early date SO that much of the
preliminary detail could be worked
out before congress convened ON
April Is.
The governor was prompted, incl
dentally, in making his early an
~nouncement, by the fact hat many
members of congress were DESTROYS Of
arranging for accommodations in
Washington for the extra session If
there was to be one. Immediately
upon his election the governor made
up his mind to wait until after he
returned from his vacation before
making known his attitude, but upon
finding, as he said, that opinion in
favor Of a special session was prac-
tically unanimous, he felt no hesita-
ton about making public his conclu-
sion.
Although the president-elect means
to rest while in Bermuda, he really
expects to give a good deal Of time to
quiet thought about the problems that
face him. He will sketch his annual
message to the New Jersey legisla-
ture and will do some extensive read
ing on data on the tariff, ~monopolies,
banking and currency reforms, and
other issues.
The governor came to New York
to attend the dinner given in his
honor by his classmates of Princeton,
70. He expected to have no political
conferences while in the metropolis,
and seemed fully confident that he
would not be disturbed by any politi-
cal callers while resting in Bermuda.
All the men prominent in the cam
paign just closed, the governor said,
knew his intention of ~postponing the
consideration of political subjects un-
Ill his return.
"I1l feel like dancing a Jig when I
get aboard that boat" the president
.lects said as he left Princeton.
Mrs. Wilson and her three daugh-
lers accompanied hmi.