Arizona republican., 1920-12-08
WILSON'S $ Fl N AL ME ESSAGE IS READ
 BY CHIEF CLERK
Both Galleries Crowded With Spectators Expect ing President to Read His Message to Congress.
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 WASHINGTON, Dec. Both houses of congress were in brief session today to hear President Wilson's annual message. It was read by the clerk. MT. Wilson having needed the advice of his physicians not to appear in per son 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 his message might touch upon the league of nations ques- tion, or his own approaching retire ment to private life. but were disap- pointed
 Mir. Wilson confined himself almost wholly to domestic questions. Only by inference did his message refer to the nearing close Of his administra- tion and that was in concluding. The proposals he presented, the president wrote. were not so much a series Of recommendations as a 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 l naessage, congress made definite prog ress on at least one Of the problems 1 t faces during the brief session The house received a rule under which an effort will be made Thursday to take up the immigration bill for prompt ac- tion. It would limit general debate to four hours. The two days interval was allowed to permit Representative Siegel of New York. a member of the immigration committee to frame a mi nority report
 Reading of Message Delayed No matter in either house, had | passed today beyond the committee l stage. At both ends of the capitol. however. members were deep in plans | to deal with business depression, un- l employment and farmers relief Dis | cussions in the senate of the plight of | farmers delayed the reading of the | presidents message in that body The industrial situation also found | place in the presidents message. Re
 covery from war effects gave promise
 of early completion "only in our fortu- | nate country" Mir Wilson said and l even here 'halts and is impeded at ] times. program of immediately
 serviceable acts of legislation" to aid
 that recovery and prove the inde- l structible recuperative force of a | great government of the people"
 should be undertaken, MT. Wilson
 said. adding:
 | One of these is 10 prove that a
 great democracy can keep house as l successfully and in as business-l like
 fashion as any other government"
 First among the recommended steps
 Mr Wilson placed enactment Of a | workable budget system" He said
 he had vetoed the budget bin passed
 at the last session "reluctantly' and
 because of "a constitutional objection. '' but as it was later revised in the house. he believed it would. with other ] afGla a.
 national budget system
 Refer to Rail Expenses Mr- Wilson cited figures as to the , national debt and urged rigid econ. omy in which all branches of the gov
 ernment should cooperate" 2 T cannot over emphasize.H he said |, "the necessity of economy in govern ment appropriations and expenditures
 and the avoidance by congress of prac- tices which take money from the 5 treasury by indefinite or revolving fund appropriations
 This years estimates "strikingIv it. t lustrated" the importance of specific D appropriations. the president added 2 the transportation act having dis
 turbed" the relationship between cur 5 rent receipts and expenditures to thf g extent of over billion dollars. l Tt is obvious" the message con g tinued. that these large payments have already seriously limited the gov. y ernments progress in retiring the - floating debt"
 d The president renewed some of tn, . recommendations he made at the open e ing of the last session and added.
 Has Faith in SF7tesmanship 70 'I do not feel it my privilege a pres. r ent to suggest the detafed and par. % ticular methods by which these oh e iccts may be attained. but have fsitl g that the inquiries of your severa y committees will discover the way ang the method"
 Q The only recommendation for othei a than domestic matters was that for ; 1 loan to Armenia to be administers, ] through American commissioners f,
 avrid further tempting opport1Ini-
 ties to rev0lGntionary tendencies i,
 that country, and for granting inde pendence 10 the Philippines. to kee,
 our promise to the people of thosi ' islands"
 Text oF Messaqe
 The complete text of President Wi - sons annual message to congress fol n lows
 When I addressed myself to per - forming the duty laid upon the presi s dent by the constitution to present q l YOU an annual report on the state Al