The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-24
When He Concludes
There Is Outburst Of
Applause.
EMPHASIZES NEED
OF LEGISLATION
Tells Senators and Representa-
tives in Joint Session That They
Will Be Recreant to Their
Duty If They Do Not Sup
ply Country With New
Currency Measure.

Washington. June 2s,--A fixed de-
termination to have currency legisla-
tion passed at this session of Con-
Sress was accepted by members of the
House and Senate to-day as President
Wilson's text for the currency mes
sage, which ne personally presented
to Congress assembled in joint session
in the House chamber Both Demo
Gratis and Republicans saw in the care
fully worded appeal OF the Prcsiden:
an earnest conviction that the money
situation must be dealt with before
Congress adjourns and preparations
were made TO BEGIN committee work
on the administration bill. which will
soon be introduced in the House by
Representative Glass. and in the SEN
ate by Senator owen.
SIT in Intense silence.
From the rostrum of the House
chamber the President. in carefully
nodulated tones that carried his words
to every corner Of the chamber. read
the brief message he had prepared
Crowded galleries. Cabinet officers
Senators and Representatives. Demo
Gratis and Republicans. sat In a tense
silence As the President with forceful
carnestness told them
1T is plainly clear that ii is our
duty to supply the new banking and
currency system the country needs.
and will Immediately need more than
ever.
I'VE must act now. whatever the sac
riiice TO ourselves. should be rccre-
ant TO my deepest convictions OF pub
lie obligations did not impress II
upon you with solemn and urgent in
sstcncc
! The occasion the Presidents
/ second denarce of the custom OF 100
/ years which sent Presidents messages
| long. dull documents. to be droned to
! weary Congressman by a hoarse voiced
! clerk. and the affair moved smoothly.
! The Senate and House gathered In the
| House chamber, where the galleries
already had been crowded and the
members chatted while they awaited
/ the Presidents coming.
The Cabinet officers. except Secre-
tary of State Bryan and Secretary of
/ the Navy Daniels. who. with their
wives. occupied gallery seats, had
places on the floor of the House
| Escorted to R0strum.
a joint committee. led by Majority
! Leader Underwood and Senator Kern,
met the President and escorted him to
| the clerks desk OH the rostrum Mr.
! Wilson apparently was less nervous
| than when he first faced the big assem-
! blage of legislators to deliver his tariff
| shuNi -hS He SPSdhe lne S3lneTlnR
sat in attentive silence, marking care
fully the points which the Presidents
! Ciction and intonation forced on their
attention. When he had concluded.
there was a burst of applause and he
bowed his way out after shaking hands
with Vice President Marshall and
Speaker Clark.
! AT both House and Senate ends Of
the Capitol and among both Demo-
Gratis and Republicans tonight the
conviction was deeply fixed that the
/ Presidents solemn and earnest insist
ence on currency legislation would re-
suit in immediate activity in the legis-
! lative branch. Chairman Glass of the
| House Banking and Currency Commit
tee. and Chairman Owen, of the Senate
| Committee, both conferred with the
President after he delivered his ad-
dress. and both prepared for the early
introduction of the administration cur
rency bill. which now is being revised
In some minor feature of phraseology.
| The bill will go into both houses this
| week.
Criticized by Mann.
The first authoritative statement on
the Presidents message was critical
and came from Republican Leader
| Mann. Of the House He said the mes
sage was fine example of classical
English. but there is nothing more to
1t. unless II be considered as a threat
that patronage will be withheld until
banking and currency bill is passed.
Representative Mann criticized the
bill rs stolen from the Aldrich none
tary report with a few radical pro
visions taken from the Bryan plat
form mixed in"
On the Senate side. many Republi-
cans wire of the opinion that the
Presidents message was a fiat decA,ra
tion that Congress must act on the
currency question. They believe ii
sets forth the Presidents position as
being so positive On that point that ne
would call another extra session Of
Congress II necessary to dispose of the
matter AS soon as the bill is intro
suced. both Senate and the House
Banking and Currency Committees viii
get down to work, and carly reports
on both sides arc expected Senator
owen expects to put the bill I'm Thurs
day.
Although a House caucus has been
called for this week, it is probable that
1t will not take any definite action on
the currency bill. The caucus wa.
called to consider the question of
reform Of the appropriation system by
the initiation OF some sort of budget
plan. and while the currency question
may be discussed, action Is likely to
be deferred until specLo, caucus Isl
called later.
!Tnei PRESIDENT made 1t clear in in
formal talks with callers to-day that
he regarded the Owen Glass bill as
primarily AN instrument through which
an emergency currency OF $500 900, 900
would be- obtained. The provision to
retire the per cent bonds which now
secure sT1@.l00.020 of currency had
bcen Omitted from the bill, according
TO information at the White House,
chiefly because no plan had been per-
fected to substitute this amount of
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