The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1917-03-08
WILSON TO NATION
APPEALS TO PEOPLE IN CRISIS
CAUSED BY FlLIBUsTER OF
TWELVE IN SENATE.
President Declares Situation at Close
Of Sixty.Fourth Congress to Be
Unparalleled In History Of
Modern Government.


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Washington, March 5.-President
Wilson Sunday night issued the fol-
lowing statement, addressed ITO the
Nation:
The termination of the last session OF
the Sixty-fourth Congress by constitu
tional limitation discloses a situation
unparalleled in the history OF the coun-
try, perhaps unparalleled in the his
tory of any modern government. In
the immediate presence of crisis
fraught with more subtle and far
reaching possibilities of national dan
ger than any other government has
known within the whole history of its
international relations, the Congress
has been una BILE to act either to safe
guard the country or to vindicate the
elementary rights of its citizens
More than five hundred of the five
hundred and thirty-onc members OF the
two houses were ready and anxious to
act: the House of Representatives had
acted, by an overwhelming majority,
but the Senate was unable to act be-
cause little group of senators had
determined that 1t should not.
The Senate has no rules by which de-
bate can be limited or brought to an
end no rules by which dilatOry tactics
of any kind can be prevented A single
member can stand in the way of ac-
ton If he have but the physical en-
complete paralysis alike of the legisla-
tive and of the executive branches of
the government.
This inability of the Senate to act
has rendered some of the most neccs-
sary legislat ion of the session impoSSi
Bile at a time when the need for it was
the most pressing and most evident.
The bill which would have permitted
such combinations of capital and of
organization in the export and import
stances Of International competition
have made imperative-a bill which
the business Judgment Of the whole
country approved ana dcmanded-has
failed.
The opposition of one or two sena-
tors has made IT impossible to increase
the membership of the Interstate Com
merce Commission or to give it the al
tered organization necessary for its cf-
ficicncy.
The conservation bill, w.t." ..
have released for immediaI,
mineral resources which are
locked up in the public lands, now that
their release is more imperatively nee
would have made the unused water
power of the country Immediately
available for industry, have both
failed. though they have been under
consideration throughout the sessions
Of two Congresses and have been
twice passed by the House of Repre-
sentatves
The appropriations for the army
have failed. along with the approprin-
lions for the civil establishment Of the
government. the appropriations for the
military academy at West Point and
the general deficiency bill
1t has proved impossible to extend
the powers of the shipping board to
meet the special needs Of the new stu
alton into which our commerce has
been forced or to Increase the gold re-
serve OF our national banking system
to meet the unusual circumstances of
the existing financial situation.
" would not cure the ditiiculty to
cali the SlN'y-iiith congress IN extra
ordinary session. Ihe paralysis or the
Senat" would remain. TN" purpose ana
the spirit oil action are not Lacking
now Inc Congress Is more definitely
united IN thouSht ana purpose at TINS
moment ! Nentur" TO say than II mas
oeeh "thih TN" memory OF any man
now IN It's membership. There Is not
only inc most united patriotic purpose,
put Inc OBJECTS members nave IN view
are perfectly ciear ana Definite
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