Connecticut western news., 1914-10-22
CONGRESS LAUDED BY
 WILSON FOR WORK
Reviews New Measures In a Letter to Oscar Underwood.

President Wilson has congratulated Oscar Underwood. majority leader of the Democratic house, for the legisla. tion that has been passed at the ses. sion of congress just closing.
 MT. Wilson reviews the work In the following letter to Mir. Underwood. Tn part 1t said
 The White House. Washington. Oct II.
 My Dear Mir. Unoerwood-I cannot lst this session of congress close without ex- pressing my warm admiration for the fldelits- and intelligence with which tho program outlined in April anc December of last year has been carried out and my feeling that the people of the country have been served by the members of this congress as they have seldom. if ever. been served before. The program was 2 great one. and 1t Is a matter of deep sat isfaction to think of the way in which it has been handled. +@a #.
 It had several distinct parts and many items. but, after all, single purpose namely. to destroy private control and set business free. That purpose was manifest enough In the case of the tartn and in the legislation affecting trusts; but. though perhaps less evident upon the surface there. it lay at the very heart of the cur renCy Dll1 IOO. ddy nOI Huu, even tnoukH 1t lies outside the field of legislation. that that and that chiefly. has been the object of the foreign policy of the government during the last eighteen months7
 Private control has shown its sinister face on every hand in America, had shown it for long time. and sometimes very brazenly, in the trusts and in a virtual domination of credit by small groups of men. The safest hiding place and covert of such control was in the tarif. There it for a long time hid very shrewdly. The tariff was very compli- cated matter none but experts thoroughly understood ',s schedules. Many of the schedules were framed to afford particular advantages to special groups of manu- lecturers and investors.
 The present congress has taken that step with courage. sincerity and effective ness The lobby by which some of the worst features of the old tarifr had been maintained was driven away by the mere pitiless turning on of the light
 In like manner by the currency bill we have created democracy of credit such as has never existed in this country be- fore For a generation or more we have known and admitted tDat we had the worst banking and currency system in the world. because the volume Of our cur ! rency was wholly inelastic-that Is. be- cause there was more than enough at cer- | tain seasons 10 meet the demands of com merce and credit. and at other times far ! too li;tie. that we could not lessen the volume when we needed less nor increase | it when we needed more. e
 wish | could speak by name of the many men who have so honorably shared in these distinguished labors. l doubt if | there has ever been a finer exhibition Of | team work or of unhesitating devotion to I the fulfIlment of party pledges-and yet | the best Of 1t Is that the great measures | passed have shown. I venture to say. nc | partisan bias but only spirit of serious | statesmanship I am proud to have been | associated with such men. working lr such spirit through so many months of unremitted labor at trying tasks of coun- sel IL has been privilege to have 0 | share In such labors. I wish I could eS- | press to every one of the members whc
 have thus co-operated together my per. sonaI appreciation of what he has helped | to do This letter may I hope serve ir some sort as a substitute for that.
 With sincere regard and admiration. ! faithfully yours.
 WOODROW WILSON.