Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-08
Urges Shipping, COnser-
vatiOn and Philippines
Bills in Message.
NATIONAL DEFENSE NOT
NEGLECTED., HE ASSERTS
Tells Necessity of Economy in
GOvernment-LaWs He
Suggests.

ond annual message, in person, to
joint session of Congress today.
The President outlined what, in his
opinion, are the chief problems con-
fronting the final session of the sixty
third Congress. His message was the
signal that set in monon the legis-
lative wheels for the short session.
Senator Kern and Representative
Underwood, Democratic floor leaders,
knew the contents of the message
before the President appeared, hav-
ing been called to the White House
to see it last night, and directly the
President had finished speaking, they
hastened to begin the performance
of their part in carrying out the
suggestions he made.
The passage of shipping bills, to
place vessels bearing the American
flag on the high seas, whence, the
President said, they had all but been
withdrawn entirely; laws for the CON
servation of the natural resources of
the country; legislation that would
tend to make easy the solution of
the Philippine question, and laws
dealing with our national defenses,
which, the President said, contrary
to popular belief, had not been ne
glected--these were some of the
topics touched on in the message.
Dull Dldl1CiitS Ol 1OnSTeSS met DIT
noon, the Senate marching over to
tue House side. Speaker Clark pre-
sided, and the session began prompt
ly at 1890 O'Clock. Following his
usual custom, the President drove
from the White House directly to the
House wing of. the capitol without
stopping at the presidential offices.
Popular interest in the formal ad-
dresses of the President is high, and
as usual the public clamored for ad-
mittance to the capitol to hear the
message, Owing to the limited space
which spectat tors can occupy those in
the galleries Were mostly members
OF the families of officials.
The majority leaders in both
houses are agreed that the calendars
shall be kept as clear as possible in
order to guard against the often sug-
gested possibility OF an extra ses-
sion. Representative Underwood as='
serted he was confident that the
supply bills can be disposed OF and
any necessary legislation enacted be-
fore March 4. thereby doing away
with the necessity for an extra
SessiC.
The Presidents Message.
Gentlemen of the Congress:
The session upon which you are
now entering will be the closing ses-
sion of the Sixty-third Congress, a
COnBTcSS, i NStft1Tc TO say winch VII.
long be remembered for the great
body of thoughtful and constructive
work which it has done, in loyal re-
sponse to the thoughts and needs III
the country. l should like in this ad-
dress to review the notable record
and try to make adequate assessm mt
of 1t; but no doubt we stand too near
the work that has been done and are
ourselves too much part of it to play
art af n rs rd
Moreover. our thoughts are now
more of the future than of the past.
While we have worked at our tasks
of peace the circumstances of the
whole age have been altered by wdr
What we have done for our own land
and our own people we did with the
best that was in us, whether of char
scter or OF intelligence, with sober
enthusiasm and a confidence in the
principles upon which we were acting
which sustained us at every step Of
tine difficult undertaking.; but II Is
DONE It has passed from our hands.
! IL now an established part of the
legislation of the country. Its useful
ness its effects will disclose them
selves in experience. What chiefly
strikes us now, as we look about us
during these closing days OF year
which will be forever memorable in
the history of the world, is that we
face new tasks. have been facing
them these six months, must face
them in the months TO come-face
them without n partisan feeling, like
men who have forgotten everything
but a common duty and the fact that
We are representatives of a great
people whose thought is not of MS
but OF what America owes to herself
and to all mankind in such circum
stances as these upon which we look
amazed and anxious.
War has interrupted the means of
trade not only, but also the processes
OF production. In Europe it is de-
stroying men and resources wholesale
and upon a scale unprecedented and
appalling There is reason to fear
that the time is near, If it be not
already at hand, when several of the
countries of Europe will find it diff
cult to do for their people what they
have hitherto been always easily able
10 do--many essential and funda-
mental things. At any rate, they will
need our help and our manifold SER
vices as they have never needed them
before: and we should be ready, more
iii and ready than we have ever been.
Latin Americas Needs.
II is of equal consequence that the
nations whom Europe has usually
supplied with innumerable articles of
manufacture and commerce OF Which
they are in constant need and with
out which their economic development
halts and stands still can now get
oniv a small part of what they for
merly imported and eagerly look to
lis to supply their all but empty mar
kets. This is particularly true of our
own neighbors. the states, the great
and small, of Central and South
America. Their lines of trade have
hitherto run chiefly athwart the seas,
not to our ports. but to the ports of
Great Britain and of the older con-
tinent of Europe. / do not stop to
inquire why, or to make any comment
on probable causes. What interests
us lust now is not the explanation,
but the fact, and our duty and oppor-
tunity in the presence of it. Here are
anarkets which we must supply, and
we must find the means of action.
The United states, this great people
for whom we speak and act. should
be ready, as never before. to serve
itself and to serve mankind; ready
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