The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1916-12-05
PRESIDENT WILSON
DELIVERS MESSAGE
TO JOINT SESSION
OF oath CONGRESS
Outlines Legislation He Hopes to En-
acted by That Body This
Session.
SUFFRAGETTES HECKLE
WILSON DURING TALK
Large Yellow Flag With Inscription
is Dropped From Balcony by
the Women.
BY ROBERT J. BENDER

BY ROBERT J. BENDER
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Dec. 5.-Dec1ar1ng
b. the country cannot and should not
consent to remain further exposed to
profound industrial disturbance,
President Wilson today appeared be-
fore a joint session Of congress and
appealed for immediate action upon
the settlement and regulation Of diff
, 1culties between railways and en-
ployes.
. Following the precedent he estab-
lisihed when he first assumed his ex-
ecutive duties in the White House,
President Wilson today appeared be-
fore congress and personally outlined
legislation he hopes to have enacted
by that body. It was the third time
he has addressed the sixty-fourth
congress.
Because the makeup of the next
house may result in hard shedding
for Democratic measures, the presi-
dent hoped, by his appeal today, to
convince this congress of the import
ance of immediate action on legisla-
ton he particularly desires.
1.-THE executive box in the house gal
lery was reserved for Mrs. Wilson
and other members of the presidents
family. Members of the cabinet also
were there.
While congress is working on his
recommendations the president will
rbe away from Washington but little.
Should it be necessary he may recon-
mend that the customary Christmas
recess be dispensed with. This sug-
gestion has been made already by
Speaker Clark and Chairman Fitzger-
AID of the house appropriations COM
lttee.
:" There is much to do before March
10, the date of adjournment, if the
presidents wishes are to be carried
out in full at this time and not en-
trusted to the sixty-fifth congress.
The first demonstration by the s}uf-
fragists, such as heckled the British
house of commons, occurred in con-
gress while the president was read
ing his annual message. Soon after
he started to read his address a big
yellow banner was dropped by the
suffragists from the gallery with the
inscription, president, what will
you do for woman suffrage?'
President Wilson's address is as
follows:
N #Gentlemen of the Congress-:
@% In fulfilling at this time the duty
laid upon me by the Constitution Of
communicating to you from time to
time information of the state of the
Union and recommending to your
consideration such legislative meas
ures as may be judged necessary and
aexpedient I shall continue the prac-
tice, which I hope has been accept
Sble to you, of leaving to the reports
AsShe several heads of the executive
the elaboration OF the
detailed needs of the public service
and confine myself to those matters
of more general public policy with
which it seems necessary and feas-
ible to deal at the present session
of the congress.
I realize the limitations of time
under which you will necessarily act
at this session and shall make my
suggestions as few as possible; but
there were some things left undone
at the last session which there will
now be time to complete and which
it seems necessary in the interest
of the public to do at once.
- In the first place, it seems to me
necessary that the earli-
2 possible consideration and action
,ould be accorded to the remaining
of the program OF settle
ment and regulation which had oc-
casion to recommend to you at the
close of your last session in view OF
the public dangers disclosed by the
unaccommodated difficulties which
then existed, and which still unhap-
nily continue to exist; between the
railroads of the country and their
/ 1ocomotive engineers, conductors and
trainmen.
.iics> then recommended:
~st, Immediate provision for the
Tgement and administrative re-
Lanization of the Interstate Com
@hherce commission along the lines
( embodied in the bill recently passed
by the house of representatives and
now awaiting action by the senate;
Yin order that the commission may be
enabled to deal with the many great
Iand various duties now devolving up
ION it with a promptness and thor
oughneSs which are, with its present
constitution and means Of action,
practically impossible.
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