The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-12-02
PRESIDENT IS EMPHATIC IN
 HIS MESSAGE. Declares That General Has, Usurped His Authority
 Tn Mexico. WAITING POLICY IS
 STILL HIS IDEA Chief Executive Plans Early Freedom For Philippine
 Islands.

The full text of President Wilson'si
 message will be found on Page Ten>f Washington, Dec. 2-Presideat Wil-r
 son arrived at the capitol just before o'clock today to- read in person
 his first annual message to a joins4 | session of Congress. He went att once to Speaker C1arl1's room Where4 he was met by a committee and es- corted into the House chamber.
 There was some delay at the begin ming of the joint session and reading of the message did not begin prompt ly at 1 o'clock as had been provided because of the failure of the Senate House chamber. It was within one minute of N- re the Senators Werss filing Uy 10 s1e other side of the capitol Meanwhile the President re- chatting with the reception commit tee and a few Congressmen.
 Galleries packed with a brilliant company of officials and their families greeted the President, however, when the joint session finally got down to business. All present rose to their feet and a deafening roar of applauss swept the chamber as aIF- Wilson took his place behind the desk and began to read at 1:OS o'clock The Presl-
 
 usual pleaEfnz7 tone which carried his words to the doors of the cham Der.
 The solemn quiet which attended the President's reading was broken by general applause when he read his views on the Mexican situation in the words, There can be no certain pros pect of peace in America until Gener- al Huerta, has surrendered his usuFDsd authority in Mexico"
 As the President concluded his refer ence to Mexico and announced chat the United States would adhere to it's waiting policy the applause was louder.
 washington, Dec. 2-President Wil- son read his first annual mesaass to Congress today at a joint session of both branches at 1 o'clock in the House chamber. The message, among the briefest of documents of it's kind from any President and some 5.OO0 words long, required less than % minutes for reading, though 1t treat ed upon a variety of subjects.
 The Mexican situation President Wilson dismissed with brief comment. reiterating the sentiments he ez- pressed in a special address to Con gress on the same subject soms time ago and expressing the belief that the HuertaL government slowly was crum- bling and that the United States prob ably would not be obliged to alter It's policy of waiting.
 No program for trust legislation was presented further than mention Of the desirabiIity of an early amendment to the Sherman law "tO prevent pri- vate monopoly more etffectually than it has vet been prevented'' and an am that the President would later address a special message to Congress dealing solely with that sub Ject.
 Building of Alaskan railways, which s7. FF1a cod F~Hu by the Senate on the pending currency bill, which he em- phasized; urgent necessity of rural credit legisla ton; self government f0E Porto Rico and Hawaii; ultimate iu- for the Philippines; Doi- lev of 'scorannon council and confer ence' between the federal government ard the states on conservation dues- tionr: revision of the system Of pri- mary elections were the other princl- pal features or the Presidents ad- dress For details Of the govern Q business the President referred Con gress to the annual reports of his cabinet officers.
 The message opened with this com nent on the Mexican situation:
 There is but one cloud upon our horizon. That has shown itself Go the south of us and hangs over Mexi- %. There can be no certain pros oect of peace in America until Gem eraI Huerta has surrendered hig 1surped authority in Mexico; until Q s understood on all hands, indeed, hat such pretended governments will lot be countenanced or dealt with by he government of the United States We are the friends of .constftutional in America; we are mora han it's friends we are its cham oions because in no other way can ,ur neighbors, to whom would wish in every way to make prooel ,ur friendship, work out their own development in peace, in liberty"
 The President observed that the bower and prestige of the Huerta sov- ,rnrnent was rapidly crumbling and ldded:
 i've shall not, believe, be obHgeds O alter our policy of watchfu1 wait nz.'
 MT. Wilson presented suggestion hat legislation be promptly enacteGl providing for primary electfouaf throughout the country. at which the -oters Of the several parties may moose their nominees for the prssf- lency without the intervention Oe nominating conRentions.
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