The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-24
Calls New Law "Constitu- tion of Peace" for Bus.
 mess World
CROWDS THRONG
 EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Senate Adopts Measure 43 to 25-Oficia1s at Work
 Is Effective at EarlyDate

dent WO0GFOW Wilson appended ms signature to the currency bill which Is now the law of the nation. As told in The Farmer of yesterday the bill passed the Senate earlier in the day but 1t was not made ready for the President until the shades of night had descended. Four gold pens were used by the president in the signing Three of these went to Senator Owen, Representative Glass and Secretary McAdoo, co-authors of the measure. Senator Chiffon of West Virginia got the other.
 There was an impressive gathering in the Presidents work room in the executive offices to witness the sign ing of the bill Members of the cab inet, Senators and Representatives and heads of various departments were present in such numbers that the place was crowded almost beyond it's capac- ity. The President was all smiles and his excessive good humor seemed to permeate the mblage.
 Presidents Address.
 need not tell you that I feel a very deep qualification at being able to sign this bill, and I feel that I ought to express very heartily the admiration I have for the men who have made it possible for me to sign this pill- There have been currents and coun- tercurrents, but the stream has moved forward.
 think that we owe special adnf- ration to the patience and the leader ship and the skill and the force of the chairmen of the two committees, and behind them have stood the com 1nitees themselves, exercising a degree of scrutiny and of careful thought in this matter which undoubtedly has re- dounded to the benefit of the bill it. self. Then there has grown, as we a hJJs nd the great piece of business which pre-, ceded it, evidences of team work that to my mind have been very notable indeed.
 Expresses Satisfaction
 Only constructive action, only the action which accomplishes something, fills men with the enthusiasm of CO., operation, and I think that at this session of Congress we have witnessed siasrn on the part Of the membership of both houses in seeing substantial and lasting things accomplished.
 It is a matter of real qualification to me that in the case of this bin there should have been so consider able number of Republican votes cast for it. All great measures under our system of government are of ne- cessity party measures, for the party of the majority is responsible for their origination and their passage; but this cannot be called a partisan meas ure. It had been relieved of all in tiInation of that sore by the cordial cooperation of men on the other side of the two houses who have acted with us and have given very substantial reasons and very intelligent reasons for acting with us. So that I think we can go home with the feIing that we are in better spirits for public service than we were even when we convened in April.
 First of Great Series
 As for the bill itself, I feel that we can say that it is the first of a series of constructive measures by which the Democratic party will show that it knows how to serve the cOun- try. In calling it the first of a series of constructive measures, need not say that I am not casting any ref1ec- tions on the great. tariff bill which preceded it. The tariff bill was meant to/ remove those impediments to American industry and prosperity which had so long stood in their. way It was great piece of preparation for the achieven of American commerce and American industry which are certainly Lo follow.F
 Then there came upon the heel of it this bill, which furnishes the rnacfain-
 
 trolled credits, put at the disposal of the merchants and -E1anufa cturers of this country for the first time in 50 years.
 I was refreshing my memory on the passage of the National Bank act which came in two pieces, as you know, in February of 1883 and in June of 1884; it is just 50 years agol since that measure, suitable for that time, was passed, and it has taken us more than g, gen neration and a half to 1 come to an understanding as to Che readjustn ents which were necessary for our own time. But we have reach | ed those readjustm ents.
 I, myself, have always felt when | the Democratic party was criticised as not knowing how to serve the bus | mess interests of the country that l there was no use of replying to that | In words. The only satisfactory re- 1 ply was in action. We have written l the first chapter of that reply.
 We are greatly favored by the cir | cumstances of our time. We come | at the end of a day of contest, at | he end of day when we have been l scrutinizing the processes Of our bus l ness, scrutinizing them with critical | and sometimes with hostile eye. We | nave slowly been coming to this time l which has now happily, arrived when l 5here is a common recognition of the 1 lhings that it is undesirable should be done. What we are proceeding to | 10 now is to organize our peace, is 10 | make our prosperity not only stable, i but free to have an unimpeded mo- l 
 It is so obvious that it ought not l need to be stated that nothing can be 1 good for the country which is not | good for all the country. Nothing l can be for the interest of the country l which is not in the interest of every | body; therefore, the day of accommo- l 1atfon and of concession and of com l mon understanding is the day of peace 1 and achievement of necessity. We | nave come to the beginning of that | day. Men are no longer resisting the ] conclusion which the nation has ar rived at as to the necessity of read