The Prescott daily news., 1913-10-06
CONCLUDING ACT IN LEGlSLA. TON IN THE EXECUTIVE OF
 FICES IS NOTEWORTHY.
WILSON DELIVERS ADDRESS
Calls Upon Colleagues to "Take Rest of Journey" by Passing Currency slation-MiIions in Bond
 ed Warehouses Released.

Washington, Oct. 6.-The rates in the Underwood-Simmons tariff bill. framed in accordance with Democrat lc campaign pledges, are now being collected by customs officials. I'm mediately after the bill was signed by President Wilson in the executive of fices telegrams were sent simultane- ously to customs collectors through out the country notifying them that the first Democratic tariff revision in quarter of century was consum- mated
 Millions of dollars worth of i'm ports which have been stored in bond ed warehouses in this country were released by the signing of the meas ure.
 The signing of the document was witnessed by members of the senate finance committee and the house ways and means committee, Vice President Marshall, Speaker Clark, Secretary Bryan, members of the cabinet, newspaper men and others. The president used two gold pens, writing the name "Woodrow" with one, which he presented to Repre- sentative Underwood, and finishing the name with the other, which he gave Senator Simmons.
 As the president handed the pens to the two men, there was an out burst of handclapping. Then the president delivered an impromptu speech in which he expressed his qualification that the tariff bill finally was on the statute books.
 President Delivers Speech.
 Gentlemen, I feel very peculiar pleasure" said the president, ''in what l have just done by way of talk ing part in the completion of a great piece of business. It is a pleasure which is very hard to express in words, which are inadequate to eX- press the feeling, because the feel ing that l have is that we have done the rank and file of the people of this country great service.
 It is hard to speak of these things without seeming to go off into cam paign eloQuence, but that is not my feeling. It is one very profound-a feeling of profound gratitude that, working with the splendid men who have carried this thing through with studious attention and doing justice all round, I should have had part in serving the people of this country as we have been striving to serve them ever since I can remember.
 "I have had the accomplishment of something like this at heart ever since I was a boy, and l know men standing around me who can say the same thing-who have been waiting to see the things done which it was necessary to do In order that there might be justice in the United States. And so 1t is a solemn moment that brings such a business to a conclu- sion and hope I will not be thought to be demanding too much of myself or of my colleagues when I say that this, great as it Is, is the accomplish TntHl ol Oily IdlL lHe JOuiHSy' we have set the business of this country free from those conditions which have made monopoly not only possi- ble, but in sense easy and natural
 Currency Is Next Step.
 "The power to control and guide and direct the credits of the country is the power to say who shall and who shall not build up the industries of the country, in which direction they shall be built, and in which di- rection they shall not be built, We are now about to take the second step, which will be the final step in setting the business of the country free. That is what we shall do in the currency bill, which the house has already passed and which l have the utmost confidence the senate will pass much sooner than some pessi- mistic individuals believe. Because the question, now that this piece of work is done, will arise all over the country, For what do we wait? Why should we wait to crown ourselves with consummate honor? Are we so self-denying that we do not wish tt complete our success"
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