The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-12-05

| this session of Congress. 1t was i'm
accord with the principles and poll
cies of our party as declared at Balti-
! more, and l have no doubt IL will
meet with favorable action by the
house OF representatives"
START ALREADY MADE.
For nearly all of the legislation
outlined in the message, the ground
work has been laid, and the Presi-
dent plans to speak further to Con-
gress with relation to antitrust re-
forms. Alaskan railroad legislation
now is before both houses, a work
mans compensation act has been fa-
vorably considered in each house
and bills on the other important sub
jects are in a position to receive i'm
mediate attention.
The declaration for legislation to
provide for primary elections for
presidential nominees, without the
intervention of nominating conven-
tions, bore immediate fruit in the
mouse. Representative Rucker, of
Missouri, chairman of the house COM
mittee on privileges and elections, to-
night began framing a bill to cover
all the Presidents suggestions. He
will Immediately introduce 1t with n
view to getting action by his COM
mittee before the Christmas HOLIDAYS,
II possible. Interest IN this recon-
mendation was manifested in both
houses. Several bills of this charact-
er have been introduced in the senate
and advocated on the floor by Repub-
licans and Progressives.
THE PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.
The full text of President Wilson'S
message follows:
Gentlemen of the Congress: In
pursuance of my constitutional duty
to give to the Congress information
of the state of the Union" take the
liberty of addressing you on several
matters which ought, as 1t seems to
me, particularly to engage the at
tention OF your honorable bodies, as
or all who study the welfare and
progress of the nation.
shall ask your indulgence If I
venture to depart in some degree
from the usual custom of setting be-
fore you in formal review the MANY
matters which have engaged the at
tention and called for the action of
the several departments of the gov
eminent or which look to them for
early treatment in the future. be-
cause the list is long, very long, and
would suffer in the abbreviation to
whlch L should have to subject 1t. l
shall submit to you the reports of the
heads of the several departments, I'm
winch these subjects are set forth in
careful detail, and beg that they NAV
receive the thoughtful attention of
your committees and of all members
or the Congress who may have the
leisure to study them. Their obvious
Importance, as constituting the very
substance of the business of the gov
ernment, makes comment and en-
phasis on my part unnecessary.
Ihe country, | am thankful to saw
is at peace with all the world, and
many happy manifestations multiply
about us of 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
nations manifest their Willingness to
bind themselves by solemn treaty to
the processes of peace, the processes
or frankness and fair concession. So
FAR the United States has stood at
the front of such negotiations. She
Will, | earnestly hope and confidently
believe, give fresh proof of her sin
cere adherence to the cause of inter
several treaties OF arbitration await
ing renewal by the senate. In addi-
tion to these, it has been the privi-
lege OF the department Of state to
gain the assent, in principle, of no
less than 81 nations, representing
four-ffths of the population of the
World, TO the negotiations of treaties
by which 1t shall be agreed that
whenever differences OF interest or
OF policy arise which cannot be re-
solved by the ordinary processes of
diplomacy they shall be publicly an
alyzed, discussed, and reported upon
by tribunal chosen by the parties
before either nation determines its
course OF action
There is only one possible standard
by which 70 determine controversies
between the United States and other
nations, and that is compounded of
these two elements: Our own honor
and our obligations to the peace of
the world. a test so compounded
ought easily to be made to govern
both the establishment of new treaty
obligations and the Interpretation OF
those already assumed
THE MEXICAN SITUATION.
There is but one cloud upon our
horizon. That has shown itself TO /
the south o. us, and hangs over Mex
leo. There can be no certain pros
pect of peace i'm America until Cen
eral Huerta has surrendered his
usurped authority in Mexico: until
1T is understood on all hands. indeed.
that such Drptandpd povar,r,ante D