The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-01-13
4 HAVE HAD REAL
VACATION" /" SAYS
PRESIDENT WILSON
Executive, on Way to Wash
ingtOn, Discusses Proposed
Legislation-Rural Cred
it's Important

Charlotte. " c., January 12.-Anutfnst
and rural credits legislation are consid-
cred of paramount and immediate impor-
tance by President Wilson. Though the
influence of the executive will be eN-
erted in behalf of other measures as well
during the present session of Congress.
he indicated in a conversation with the
correspondents aboard his train today that
in the immediate future these two sub
jects would occupy the forum of public
attention.
The President showed clearly that these
reforms in particular had been ON his
mind during his vacation at Pass Chris
tian. Miss. Besides sketching his trust
message, which will be oharacteristically
brief. the President carefully studied the
report of the commission that went
abroad to study rural credits. He exam
ined also bill on the subject prepared
by Senator Fletcher. chairman of the
commission, and said that he had Just
written the Florida senator asking him to
Confer, with him about 1t at the White
House when he got back. The President
remarked that the bill seemed sound IN
the main, though he thought some addi-
tlons ought to be made.
Carrying Out Promises
In giving his attention now to the trust
and rural credits questions. the President
feels that he not only is carrying out the
promises made in the party platform, but
is fulfilling at the same time an informal
understanding with members of the Sen
ate and House who sought to bring the
subject of rural credits into the discus
sion of the currency bill and TO prohibit
interloclxing directorates and other trust
evils by provisions in both the currency
and tariff bills. 1t was only after the
agreement among democratic leaders that
all phases of the trust and rural credit
problems would be handled separately
that they were then eliminated from, con-
sideration.
While conferences ON these questions
have not all been arranged. the President
is planning to devote the remainder of the
week to consulting with members of his
cabinet and leaders in Congress and will
read his trust message to joint session
next Monday or Tuesday.
Unadvised of Developments
The President said he was unadvised OF
any late developments in the Mexican sit
uation and seemed somewhat annoyed
that Charge O'Shaughnessy should have
been drawn into the limeliglIt recently in
press reports that he was not in harmony
with John Lind and the Washington adj
ministration.
The President had pointed out pre-
viously that when Mr. Lind visited him,
the work of Charge o Shaughnessy was
mentioned only in the most favorable
terms.
The train ride during the day was a
restful one for the President and his fam
ily Few stops were made, but at many
of the towns and cities the special was
run through slowly while the President
stood on the back platform and waved
his hat In response to the cheers.
The President will arrive in Washington
early tomorrow, looking better than he
has in several months. His complexion
has a ruddy. healthful glow and his step
is brisk and springy and he goes back to
his duties at the White House in much
better physical condition than he was
when the strain of pre-inauguration activ-
tiles in New Jersey brought him to Wash
ington last March somewhat fatigued.
II have had a real vacation lie told
members of his party today with an air
of keen satisfaction.