The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1919-02-26
Reaches Washington From Over.
seas and PIunges Into
Strenuous Task.
TO ADDRESS CONGRESS
Expected to Speak to Soons in Few
Days, Outlining Plan of League of
Nations-To Decide lmpor-
tant Questions.

Washington, Feb, 26.-Back in the
White House after an absence of near
ly three months, President Wilson
was working away at his desk when
surprised members of the staff of the
executive offices began to report
His first act without waiting for the
office force was to send a telegram to
Theodore E. Burton, president Of the
League of Nations Union at New York,
reiterating his confidence that the peo-
pie of the United States with practical
unanimity would support the League of
Nations. Mr.. Burton, republican and
former senator from Ohio, had tele-
graphed welcome to the president as
recognized leader of the League of Ma
tions movement.
At Desk Early.
The presidents train from New York
reached here early after an unevent-
full run from Boston. At $40 the
president and Mrs. Wilson left the
train, passed through a cheering and
handclapping crowd in the station, and
drove directly to the White House. A
few minutes later Mr.. Wilson was in
his office surveying the tasks that lie
ahead of him during the single week
before March 5, when he sails again
for France, to take up his interrupted
work at the peace conference.
No conferences with members of
congress have been arranged SO far,
but there may be one or two on i'm
portant domestic matters before the
president meets the members of the
foreign relations committees of the
senate and house at dinner, to so over
the constitution of the League of Ma
tions. Plans for an address before a
Joint session of congress are expected
to take shape in day of two.
To Preside over Cabinet.
The only engagement made for the
president was the cabinet meeting at
2 p. m. Vice-president Thomas r.
Marshall, who has presided at the
meetings during the presidents abb
sence, was invited to be present again
and take part in the deliberations. =
1t was said that the president had
not yet made up his mind about the ap-
pointment of an attorney general to
succeed Mr.. Gregory or the calling of
an extra session of congress. Mr..
Gregory is anxious to retire March 4,
but 1t was said at his office that he
would remain If his successor had not
been chosen by that time. The extra
session will not be decided on un-
TIL after the president has made a COM
plete survey of the legislative situa-
tion. The time, il one is called, will
depend on the amount of business
transacted by congress before March
4, particularly whether the Victory
Liberty Loan bill and important ap-
preparation measures are passed.
Anxious to Meet Governors.
President Wilson is very anxious to
meet with governors of the states be-
fore he returns to Europe to discuss
the labor situation. He is said to
realize that the question of unemploy-
ment is closely bound up with indus
trial unrest and he is desirous of TAX
ing all possible steps to harmonic the
domestic situation as soon as possible.
The conference was planned by the de-
partment Of labor and will be called on
a date depending on the availability
OF the state executives, many of whom
just now are engaged with meetings
of legislatures.