Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1913-06-24
Message Read to Joint Session
of House and Senate I'M
presses Members With Its
EarneStneSS,
REPUBLICAN LEADER
VOICES OPPOSITION
Belief Prevails That Wilson
viii Call Another Extra
Session if Congress Should
Fail 10 Pass Bill
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termination 90 nave currency lceis-
htlon passed at this session Of con-
eress was accepted by the members
Of the house and senate as President
Wilson'S text of the currency mes
sage. which he personally presented
today to congress assembled in Joint
session In the house chamber. Both
democrats md republicans saw in
the carefully worded appeal Of the
president an earnest conviction that
the money situation must be dealt
with before congress adiourns. Prepa-
ratjons were made to begin committee
work on The administration bin which
will soon be introduced in the house
hy Representative Carter Glass ana
IN the senate by Senator owen.
From the rostrum of the house
chamber the president read the briei
message he had prepared. Crowded
Galleries. cabinet officials, senators
ana represrn'o democrats and
republicans. sat in u tense silence as
the president. with forccful earnest
ness told them.
III plainly is clear that il Is onr
duty to supply the new banking ana
currency system the country needs
and that 1t will Immediately need 1t
moro than ever.
We must act now al whatever sac-
fifce TO ourselves. 1t is a duty when
th. elreu stances surb.a IS 70 rost-
Donc. / should be rccreant TO my deep
est convictions Of public Obligation
did ] not Impress 1t upon you with
solemn and urgent insIstence."
The president defied the custom Of
one hundred years for the second time
bv delivering the message in person.
Joint committee. led by Majority
Leader Underwood and Senator Kern
met the president and escorted him
To the clerks desk on the rostrum.
Mr. Wilson apparently was less ner-
paus than when he first faced the big
assemblage Of legislators to deliver
his tariff address when he had con
omdod there was q burst of applause
ana he bowed his way out after shak-
ing hands with Vice President Mar
shall ana Speaker Clark.
The president said.
"lt is under the compuision OF wha'
seems to me clear and imperative
dntv that have a second time this
session sought the privilege Of ad-
dressing you in person. know OF
course, that the heated season of the
year is upon us. that work in these
chambers and in the committee
rooms is likely to become a burden
as the season lengthens, and that
every consideration of personal con-
venience and personal comfort per
haps. in the cases of some OF us, con-
sderation of personal health even
dictate an early conclusion of the de-
liherations of the session, but there
are occasions of public duty when
things which touch as privately seem
very small; when the work to be done
is So pressing and so fraught with big
consequence that we know that we
are not at liberty to weigh against II
amy point Of personal sacrifice. we
are now in the presence o. such an
occasion. 1t is absolutely imperative
that we should give the business men
of this country a banking currency
system by means Of which they can
make use Of the freedom of enterprise
and Of individual initiative which we
are about to bestow upon them.
We are about to SET them free; we
must not leave them without the tools
OF action when they are free. We are
about to set them free by removing
the trammels of the protective tariff.
Ever since the Civil war they have
waited for this emancipation and
Tor the free opportunity It viii bring
with it. 1t has been reserved for us
TO give it to them. Some fell in love
indeed, with the slothful security or
their dependence upon the govern
ment. some took advantage of the
shelter of the nursery to set up a
mimic mastery Of their own within its
walls Now both the tonic and the
discipline Of liberty and maturity are
To ensue. There will he some read
lustments Of purpose and point Of
view. There will follow a period OF
expansion and new enterprise fresh
y conceived. 1t is for us to deter
h1lne now whether it shall be rapid
ana facile and of easy accomplish
hent This il can not be unless the
fesourceful business men who are to
ueal with the new circumstances are
% have at hand and ready for use
me instrumentalities and conven-
fences Of free enterprise which indie
pendent men need when acting on
'neir own initiative
II is not enough to strike the
Ahaekles from business. The duty of
craftsmanship is net negative merely.
~ Is constructive also. We must show
now to supply it. No man, however