The Brunswick news., 1913-04-09

MANY SfEUIH9RS
FILL GALLERIES
WILSON WASTED FEW WORDS IN
TELLING CONGRESS WHAT
1T SHOULD DO.
TARIFF REVISION HIS TOPIC
President Says the Schedules Must
Be Radically Changed to Square
with Present Conditions, But Work
Requires Careful Consideration.

Wilson stood on the speakers ros-
scum in the hall of the house today
and personally read his first message
to congress, the first president since
John Adams to exercise that priyi-
lege.
The renewal of custom abandon
ed century ago, and now surround
cd by such wide differences OF opin-
ions among members of congress, at
tracted to the capitol a large assem-
blage.
Galleries were packed with nation
al figures. Mrs. Wilson and her three
daughters and the women of the cab.
met circle prominent among them
The diplomatic gallery probably con
tanned a representative of every na
tion with an envoy in the foreign
corps here.
The president was cheered as he
mounted ths rostrum and SHOOK
hands with SPEAKER Clark. He be
gan to speak imme diately. There
was intense silence in the great
room. the president talking in an Or
binary tone as he explained his com
ing in person to deliver his mes
sage. .a..sa..--ssaf
As the presidenk k-sa6 6H 9Tery eye
was riveted toward the speakers
stand with its new occupant. Never
in the life of any man present had
a president occupied that historic
place in such a capacity.
Here was the head of the nation
come to assert that he was a person,
a human being" come to deal with
his fellow men in control Of the ma
tion's destiny as man of force, not
a mere department OF the govern
ment. 1t was all so unusual that to
many it seemed almost unreal, but
the president, smiling as he spoke
ard talking to the great assemblage
as man to man, soon developed In
the gathering a fellow feeling
Throughout the message the presi-
dent read in a clear voice which car
ried his words to every corner Of the
big hall Members of the house and
senate sat throughout in rapt atten-
tion following every word closely. A
murnur of conversation that swept
the gallery when the president be
gan was soon hushed as the tall, i'm
posing figure at the clerks desk read
on in his commanding but eonversa-
Al Ap Ia1 II u s, ,3fsE
ductory remarks, explaining his pres
ence before them, senators and rep
resntatiyes joined in the applause.
The president concluded the read
ing at 1:0S amid a wave of applause
and Immediately left the chamber.
When the president concluded he
said: Il thank you sincerely"
The Message.
President Wilson's message was
as follows:
I have called the congress together
in extraordinary session because a
duty was laid upon the party now in
power at the recent elections which 1t
ought to perform promptly, IN egder
that the burden carried by the people
under existing law may be lightened
as soon as possible and In order, also,
that the business interests Of the
country may not be kept too long in
suspense as to what the fiscal changes
are to be to which they will be re-
quired to adjust themselves. 1t is clear
to the whole country that the tariff
duties must be altered. They must
be changed to meet the radical altera-
tion in tho conditions OF our economic
life which the country has witnessed
within the last generation.
While the whole face and method OF
our Industrial and commercial life
were being changed beyond recogni-
tion the tariff schedules have re-
mained what they were before the
charge began, or have moved in the
on they were given when no
circumstance Of our industrial
elopment was what it is today.
task Is to square them with the
Aal facts. The sooner that is done
sooner We shall escape from suf-