Bisbee daily review., 1920-12-08
CONGRESS HEARS MESSAGE IF
 PRESIDENT
Program of Serviceable and Immediately Legislation
 Is Asked By Wilson
PLEADS FOR ECONOMY
House and Senate Hold Brief Sessions But Accomplish
 Little on Second Day

(. : houses of congress were in brief ses- sion today to hear President Wilson's i annual message. It was read by the clerk, Pl esident Wilson having heed ed the advice of his physicians not to appear in person to present his { recommendations.
 Galleries in both senate and house were crowded Both these galleries were drawn by the chance that the president might appear in person or by the possibility that his message might touch upon the league of ma I'tions question, or his own approach l ing retirement to private life, but were disappointed
 President Wilson confined himself almost wholly to domestic questions. Only by inference did his message refer to the nearing close of his ad- ministration and that was in con cluding The proposals he present. ed, the president wrote, were not so much a series of recommendations as confession "of the faith in which I was bred and which it is my solemn purpose to stand by until my last fighting day.
 Aside from hearing the presidents message, congItss made definite progress on at least one of the prob lens it faces during the brief ses- Sion. The house received a rule un- der which an pffCrt will be made Thursday to take up the immigra- tiOn bill for prompt action. 1t would limit general debate to four hours. The two days interval was allowed to permit RepresN tative Seigel, of New York, a mtmber of the immi grafton committee, tC frame a min ority report.
 No matter in either house bad passed today beyond the committee stage. At both ends of the capital, howeNtr, members were deep in plans to deal with business depres- sion, unemployment and farmers re- lief. Discussions in the senate Of the plight of farmers delayed the seading of the presidents message | in that body
 The industrial situation also found a place in the presidents message. 1
 
 mise of early completion "only in our fortunate country" President | Wilson said and even here "halts | and is impeded at times" A pro gram of immediate serviceable acts l of legislation" to aid that recovery | and prove the indestructible recup- | erative force of great government | of the people," should be undertak- |
 
 ''One of these is to prove that | great democracy can keep house as successfully and in as business-like | fashion as any other goTernment.'
 First among the recommended | steps, President Wilson placed enact | ment of workable budget system He said he had vetoed the budget | bill passed at the last session re | luctantly' and because of "a consti- l tutional objection" but as it was lat | CT revised in the house. he believed ! it would. with other measures. fur nish Foundations for national bud | get system"
 President Wilson cited figures as to the rational debt and urged rig | i'd economy in which all branches of the government should cooperate"
 'I cannot over-emphasize." he said "the necessity of economy in gov ernment appropriations and eXpend- | itures and the avoidance by congress | of practices which take money from the treasury by indefinite or revolv ing fund appropriations
 This years estimates "strikingly | Illustrated" the importance of speci- | fife appropriations. the president | added, the transporting act having | disturbed" the relationship between ! current receipts and expenditures to the extent of over billion dollars. |
 Tt is obvious" the message con tinued, that these large payments | have already seriously limited the | governments progress in retiring 1 the floating debt"
 The president renewed some or the recommendations he made at the opening of the last session and edded:
 1 do not feel it my privilege al present to suggest the detailed and particular methods by which these objects may be attained, but I have faith that the inquiries of your com mittee will discover the way and the method"