Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-12-24
WILSON FREELY PRAISES CONGRESS- Presi lent Makes Talk After Placing Name To Cur
 rency Bill
PEOPLE FOR MEASURE
Ehiei EXecuii,e Notes That Many Re- pMblicanS Voted With the
 Democrats.

Washington, Dec. President Wilson si:ned the currency bill here today at 6:02 D. m., ma!;ing that measure law. The formality at tendant upon this act was fraught With a distinct note of jubilation over the accomplishment of the first of series of constructive measures by which the Democratic party will show that it knows how to serve :he country"
 What these other measures were to be, outlined iii a few remarks, those present took to refer directly to the proved willingness of the Vii. son administration to deal with b. 2 business in a pacificatory way as evidenced by the American Telephone and Telegraph Company dissolution agreement and the advances extend ed to the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad.
 Men are no longer resisting Che conclusions which the nation has ar rived at as to the necessity of read ustment .f it's business, said the president. Business men of all sorts are showing their willingness to come into this arrangement which venture to characterize as the ;t,,fi Nf S
 There seemed to be throughout the speech a personal. rather than an official sense e feeling of pride, the personal pride of "a party in mak- ing the announcement, both as to the effects of the bill and his future policy was apparent A distluet air of triumph fer his own 4Jnli list.n tion so far. prevailed.
 The speech was the realization of the announcement made last night by the International News Selv that the President proposed to make an address reasuring business men of the country"
 The President was surrounded hy members of his family, his Cabinet, members of the Senate ap' House committee that framed the measure nad other distinguished Democrats when he affixed his signature to the bill.
 Let me do the deed first" observ- ed Mir. Wilson as he smiled upon the crowd that stood in a circle sur rounding the big desk in the cen ter of the private office of the chief executive. After that" he continued perhaps ! shall have something to say." ' LE@
 Sitting at his desk, MT. Wilson pulled the parchment copy of the law before him and reached for one of several handsome gold pens that lay on the table. With one he wrote another he wrote in a bold hand another lie wrote in a bold hand Woodrow, then picked up another  pen, and seizing another, finished his signature and dotted the ''i" in Wilson,"
 sThis is the most elaborate sigma ture nave ever written," said the President, smiling broadly. "I am using series of pens."
 "The Jill itself came in install- ments, Mc. President" said Senator J. Hamilton Lewis.
 "Yes,' laughed the President land very slowly"
 As the President concluded his signature cheers for the consuma- tion of this great second legislative policy oe the administration broke forth, while the President smiled his approval and Mrs. Wilson and her daughters beamed their pleasure.
 One of the pens the President handede 70 Chairman Owen, of the Senate Committee; one to Chairman Glass, of the House Committee, and the other to Secretary McAdoo, re. taining he fourth for himself.