The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-01-21
WILL MEET EACH
OTHER HALF WAY
Government and Business, Says the
President, are Willing to Co.
Operate for the Common
Coed

Good
Washington, Jan. 20.-A MESA ge
OF business peace and industrial free
dom was delivered by President viii
son yesterday to Congress in the hall
CT the House. Legislators and spec
tators sat in silence as the president
outlined the administration policy
toward big business
Admission to the House was ~by
ticket only" and many were turned
away to crowd the corridors in the
hope Of catching a glimpse OF the
president as he read his message.
Misses Eleanor and Margaret Viii
son. with Miss Helen Woodrow
Bones, were among the early arri-
walls. Secretary OF State Bryan OF
cupied his accustomed seat in the
diplomatic gallery.
The House met at noon ana fifteen
minutes later the president, led by
Vice President Marshall and Ser
geant-at-Arms Higgins, was an
nounced The president took his
seat at the right OF the speaker
Representatives Underwood AMI
Mann and Senators Kern and Cal
linger were appointed to escort the
president to the chamber from
Speaker Clark's Office.
AS the president took his seat at
the reading clerks desk a gale of
applause swept the gallery.
The presidents rounded sentences
carried to the furthermost corner of
the packed galleries. His declara-
tions that the laws against trusts
should tear nothing up by the
roots" and that no sweeping or nov
el change is necessary" was receiv-
cd with attentive silence. The first
applause, led by Representative
Mann, republican leader, greeted his
declaration in favor of giving the
Interstate Commerce Commission
power to regulate railroad finances.
The presidents auditors were
stirred to more applause by his state
ment as to railroad control with its
declaration that the business OF
production must be separated from
the business of transportation.
Cheered Personal Responsibility
Statement
His declaration in favor of the
creation of a trade commission with
authority to order the dissolution oi
Industrial combinations was passed
in silence, but cheers greeted his
statement that penalties and pun.
ishment should fall, not upon busi
ness itself, but on the individual!
who used the instrumentalities o.
business to do things which public
condemn.
As the president concluded his ad
dress among cheers of the notable
array, OF lawyers, Majority Leade1
Underwood greeted him with
handclasp of ccngratulation. Other
who hurried up, anxious to gree
him. impeded his progress out OF tn,
chamber
After the presidents exit th
House referred that part of the mes
sage relating to regulation OF rail
road stocks AMI bonds and creation
OF an interstate trade commission
to the committee on interstate an
foreign commerce, ana the remand
er OF the address to the judic:ar
committee
we are now about to- write tn
additional articles of our constitu
tion of peace, said the president
The peace that is honor and free
dom and prosperity"
Besides suggesting the scope c
legislation, the president made
personal appeal for an atmospher
of friendliness and cooperation i
Congress while handling the prot
lem.
Business and Government to Figf
No More
The '.antagonism, he said, 'bt
tween business and government
over We now are about TO give e.
preston TO the best Judgment {
America, to what We know to be tt
conscience and honor Of the Ian
The government and business me
are ready to meet each other ha
way in a common effort to squal
business methods and both publ
opinion and the law"
The chief points which the pres
dent singled out as basis for le:
islation were:
1. Effectual prohibition of the j
terlocking of directorates of gre