The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-12-02

pEAFENINo APPLAUSE cREErs
CHIEF EXECUTIVE WHEN HE
BEGINS READING.
fAVORS PRIMARY FOR
nominating President
4
Would Not Abolish Conventions Of
Parties, But Suggests Radical
Changes in Makeup and Work-PoI.
icy Toward Mexico Made Clear.
(By Associated PreSS.)

(By Associated PTeSS.)
Washington, Dec. 2.-President Will
son was greeted by deafening applause
as he began reading before the joint
session of Congress and packed gal
leries his message to the new Con-
gress. Applause halted the reading
when he spoke of strengthening the
antitrust law and favored a primary
for nominating presidential candi-
dates. He began reading at los and
finished at 1:35, after which the joint
session was dissolved.
Address of the President.
Gentlemen of the Congress:
In pursuance of my constitutional
duty to give to the Congress infor-
nation of the state of the Union," l
take the liberty of addressing you on
several matters which ought, as it
seems to me, particularly to engage
the attention of your honorable bod
les, as of all who study the welfare
and progress of the Nation.
l shall ask your indulgence If
venture to depart in some degree from
the usual custom of setting before
you in formal review the Many mat
ters which have engaged the atten-
ton and called for the action of the
several departments of the Govern
ment or which look to them for early
treatment in the future, because the
list is long, very long, and would suf-
fer in the abbreviation to which
should have to subject it. shall
submit to you the reports of the heads
of the several departments, in which
these subjects are set forth in careful
detail, and beg that they may receive
the thoughtful attention of your com.
mittees and of all Members of the
Congress who may have the leisure to
study them. Their obvious impor-
tance, as constituting the very sub
stance of the business of the Govern.
ment makes comment and emphasis
on my part unnecessary.
At Peace With the World.
The country am thankful to say,
is at peace with all the world, and
many happy manifestations multiply
about us of a growing cordiality and
sense of community of interest among
the nations, foreshadowing an age OF
settled peace and good will. More and
more readily each decade do the ma.
tions manifest their willingness to
bind themselves by solemn treaty to
the processes of peace, the processes
of frankness and fair concession. Sc
far the United States has stood at the
front of such negotiations. She will
! earnestly hope and confidently be
lieve, give fresh proof of her sincere
adherence to the cause of information
al friendship by ratifying the severa
treaties of arbitration awaiting renew
al by the Senate. In addition to these
it has been the privilege of the De
partment Of State to gain the assent
In principle, Of no less than 81 ma
tions, representing four-fifths Of the
population Of the world, to the nego
ton Of treaties by which it shall bt
agreed that whenever differences o
interest or Of policy arise which cal
not be resolved by the ordinary proc
lesses Of diplomacy they shall be pub
IVY analyzed, discussed, and report
4 upon by tribunal chosen by thu
parties before either nation deter
mines its course of action.
There is only one possible standart
by which to determine controversies
between the United States and othe
Z nations, and that is compounded o
these two elements: Our own homo
and our obligations to the peace o
the world A test so compounde,
ought easily to be made to govern
both the establishment of new treat
obligations and the Interpretation O
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