Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-04
PRESIDENT WILL
ADDRESS CONGRESS
Continued from First Pagel

Continued from First Pasel
laws and the recent ratification of the
arbitration treaties are things which
the Presidents friends were pointing
to as the direct result of the intimate
contact established between the eXecu-
tive and legislative departments of the
government.
Mexico and Japan
Much of the Presidents time ana
energy have been spent in wrestling
with troublesome Mexican situation,
as yet unsolved, and the diplomatic
tangle with Japan growing out of the
passage by California of new anti
alien land law. Lately he has been
Gevoting himself to a rehabilitation OF
the foreign relations of the United
States-the drafting with Secretary
Bryan of new peace treaties, the set
tlement of the Panama Canal tolls
controversy with Great Britain, diff
culties with Colombia growing out of
the partition of Panama and many
other subjects of foreign policy.
Five times the President has ap-
peared before Congress, delivering
messages on the tariff, the currency
Mexican affairs, the annual report on
the state of the Union and trust legis-
lation." The recommendations of his
annual message for the building of an
antitrust reform are still in the hands
of Congress with assurances of the
leaders that they will be made law be-
fore the expected, adjournment in
June.
To Speak Tomorrow
Interest in the Presidents sixth mes
sage was apparent when ii became
known he would address Congress to-
morrow in advocacy of the repeal of
the clause exempting American coast
wise shipping from the payment of
Panama Canal tolls. The chief execu-
tive for the first time asks Congress,
particularly his own party, to reverse
itself, but his argument is that when
| Congress last passed on the question
international circumstances such as
now surround the question did not
then exist. The President believes a
general distrust of the intentions of
the United States in constituting treaties
for its own selfish benefit has arisen
and because of the doubt existing ON
the interpretations of the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty he urges the repeal of the
much debated provision.
The message tomorrow will be the
shortest of all. 1t is said to be less
than 500 words long. All of Mr.. Will
sons addresses have been brief as COM
pared with those of his predecessors
washington residents of many years
to whom the ways and manners of a
President have been a matter of inti-
mate observation have watched Presi-
dent Wilson with interest. He has
broken many precedents; his ways
have been quite informal; but the
most conspicuous characteristic of all
is his disinclination to making public
speeches. He has declined hundreds
of invitations to functions in all parts
of the country. He has attended but
one public banquet-last nights cere-
mony of the National Geographic So
ciety, when Colonel Goethals was pre-
sented with gold medal by Mr.. Will
son on behalf of the society. His
only two speeches were made to the
American Red Cross last December
and one to the Daughters of the
American Revolution. His trips out of
Washington have been few. While
Congress has been in session the Presi-
dent has made it a point to be at his
desk continuously
Mr.. Wilson appears with a uni
formed aid only at army or navy func-
tons and the motorcycles which used
% precede the Presidents motor have
been substituted by an automobile
with secret service men, who follow
incorspicuously behind, so that the
President drives about Washington at
tracing but little attention.