Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-04-08
President to Adopt Plan
Out Of Vogue Since John
Adams Presided by Max
ing Speech to Congress.
MURDOCH CHOICE
OF PROGRESSIVES
Kansan Nominated by the
Third Party for Speaker;
Women Seek Suffrage ii
Visit to Both Houses.

| Washington, D. c.. April 7.-Presi.
dent Wilson's determination to read
his own message to congress tomor.s
row has completely displaced tho;
tariff and the income tax 20 subjects
Of chief popular interest. No pr0ot.l
dent since John Adams has awaited
himself of the right. Congress- Was
amazed when 1t heard OF the pre6i.
dents plan. Some of the old line load-
ers refused to believe 1t until Secre-,
tary Tumulty personally confirmed
the news. q 81
! Arrangement for the extraordinary
event got under way today. It W1a
planned that the president should first
60 to his room on the senate side Of
the capitol and later 60 to the haal1
of the house OF Representatives whero]
both branches of congress will be, aar]
sembled. The legislative preliminAr1eol
to get the house and senate together
were being laid out today. Under ordi.
nary circumstances the two bodies,
meet In joint session only once every
four years and then for the .perfuHc-3
tory ceremony Of CONTRASTING the
electoral vote. ssss .sS s;sss sss
i President Wilson intends tos6ltps
quietly away from the white house
with his message, in his pocket and at-a
tended by probably only one secret
service man ride to his office almost
Immediately. Some of the presidents
]! friends say he may be able to deliv0r
oil his principal messages to congress-
In the same way as his term goes on.
| The president regards that message to
congress as one dignified way to keep
in touch with congress. He already ha1
let 1t be known that he intends to
make frequent use Of the presidents
room during sessions Of congresS to
keep in close touch with the legisllr
tive situation. Most other presidents
have used the room for an hour or two
during the closing hours OF each seB-
sion Of congress.
Says Reasons Are Simple.
| President Wilson was asked today
what motive impelled him to renew the
custom OF q century ago.
"The reasons are very simple" he
said. II think that it Is the only
dignif1ed way for the president to ad-
dress the houses at the opening Of the
session. Instead Of sending the nd.
dress up by messenger and letting
the clerk read 1t perfunctorily In the
familiar clerks tone OF voicesI thought
that the dignifed and natural thing
was to read 1t. 1t IL precedent
which 1t is true has been discontinued
long time, but which Is very
respectable precedent"
| The president was asked II he ex-.
pected that there would be answers
from congress as there had been In the
old days, but he smilingly replied that
the only response he looked for Was
the legislative answer.
President on the Fence.
President Wilson said today he was
ION the fence" as to whether the tariff
should be revised schedule by sched.l
ule or in single bill Senators Sim-t
mons, Shively Hughes, James, StonN,t
Williams and Gore, democratic meme
bers of the senate finance committees
argued unanimously with the prest
dent for a schedule by schedule re.Is
vision but at its conclusion the preSi-i
dent said he would still further con.i
slider the matter before reaching ~
decision.
The president had fairly made up
his mind that the single bill idea was,
the more effective and believes that
such measure could pass. He told
the senators that he did not think any
senator's, voting against the bill. would
venture to bear the burden OF responsi.
bility for defeating the party program.
It was suggested that the Louisiana
senators would oppose the bill bue
the president, 1t is said. took account
jof that loss but figured that the meA-
sure still would have enough votes -
pass.
The senators went away With thA
impression that while the president
will still be open to conviction. he was
inclined somewhat to the single ta1in
bill The entire question must be de-
cided, as far as the presidents wishes
are concerned before the democratic
caucus meets tomorrow.
Representative A. Mitchell Palmer Ok
Pennsylvania chairman Of the caucus,
sought the presidents opinion as 70
whether the caucus tomorrow SHOULD
1 be open.
/; II have always been in favor Of the
open caucus" said the president.
| Progressives in the house when
that branch Of congress met today de.
clared their solidarity as third party
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