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GALVESTON TRIBUNE
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VOL. XXXV.
WE ARE NOT NEGLIGENT
RUSS VICTORY
GIVES NOTICE
HEAVY RAINS HAMPERING
COTTON EXPORTS GROWING.
OF NATIONAL DEFENSE
CLAIM UPSET
TO BUSINESS
HOSTILITIES IN BELGUIM
This Is Declaration of President Wilson in Message Details of Big Battle Still
Wilson Departs From Text Germans Renew Activity In Region of Yser---Report
Lack ng.
To Joint Session of Congress.
of Message.
Progress North of Arras.
ALLIED ARMIES IN
NATION HAS ERRED IN ITS NEGLECT
NO FURTHER EFFORT
FRANCE CAUTIOUS
OF AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE
TO RESTRICT TRADE
COAL STRIKE
NEARING END
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legislation which awaits and should
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OF MILITARY FACTS
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Unofficial Report Says Russians Lost Over 100,000
at Lodz—Paris Tells of the Capture of Vermelles.
Heavy Artillery Engagements Are Reported.
the total for
months of the
1,404,517 bales.
the
the
Colorado Labor War May
Be Terminated.
100th
To-
fair;
34 SAILORS KILLED
ON STEAMER VEDRA
Legislative Program Calls for Measure Looking to
Ultimate Independence of Philippines.
Economy Is Urged.
RETREATING RUSSIANS CLOSELY PURSUED;
TEUTONS TAKING PRISONERS AND CANNON
British Vessel, Carrying Gas-
oline, Wrecked And Burn-
ed Near Barrow.
re-
i
President Wilson Thinks Whole
Question Hinges on Method
of Investigation.
Russian Center May Fall Back
on the Defensive For
the Present.
To Perpetrate Industrial An-
archy and Chaos.
Clear Road To Success Has
Been Opened To
Trade.
GERMANS TAKE OVER 100,000 PRISONERS.
By Associated Press.
London, Dec. 8.—A Central News dispatch from Amsterdam
says that according to a message from Berlin, it is reported there
that upwards of 100,000 prisoners were taken by the Germans when
they captured Lodz, Russian Poland.
News of the capture of Lodz, this message says, aroused extra-
ordinary enthusiasm at Berlin. No official report has been received
concerning the number of prisoners and guns captured.
To Tour
>\EARLY
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SERVIAN VICTORY ANNOUNCED.
By Associated Press.
Nish, Servia, Dec. 8.—Via London.— Regarding the Servian vic-
tory December 5 on the northeastern front, the Servian official state-
ment issued today says:
“The enemy was overwhelmed and had to retire in disorder. We
captured six officers, 1,810 men, two howitzers, nine other guns, am-
bulances, many rifles and telegraphic material.”
Tbe FIRST RATIONAL BANK
Of GALVESTON
Seuhasasr Ger, Strand and 22d Sts.
IWEB STATES DEPOSITARY
Depositary ef the State of Texas
ceive the sanction of the
mean the bill which gives
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the first three
cotton year to
The export of
FORECAST
For Galves-
ton and vicini-
ty: Tonight and
Wednesday
generally fair;
colder tonight;
moderate
northerly
winds.
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 8.—President Wil-
son told callers today he favored the
disclosure of all facts connected with
the preparedness of the United States
for national defense and believed that
while the subject should be discussed
as fully as possible the whole ques-
tion hinged on the method of investi-
gation. The commission plan proposed
by Representative Gardner he disap-
proves.
The president said he had no special
knowledge of the existence of any lob-
by for stirring up military discussion
at this time, but he intimated he be-
lieved there was such an organized ef-
fort. He declared that his correspon-
dence showed widespread opposition to
any efforts to involve the United States
in a militarist movement.
The president refused to say wheth-
er he believed partisanship entered into
the efforts to investigate the question
because the thought partisanship should
not be mentioned by government offi-
cials in connection with a subject con-
cerning foreign relations.
east of
meridian:
nig h t
The capture of Lodz, if indeed accom-
plished, will threaten the Russian line
of communication with Warsaw—that
is to say, the great arterial railway
which runs diagonally across Poland
from Czenstochowa to the Polish cap-
ital. Details of the battle are still lack-
ing, however, and it remains to be seen
whether the Germans will be able to
make a further advance.
This qualification is made even in
Berlin, where it is pointed out editor-
ially that the Germans must follow the
retreating Russians relentlessly if they
would relieve the pressure around Cra-
cow and on the East Prussian frontier.
The opinion is expressed by military
critics here that Russians may merely
fall back on their entrenchments and
remain on the defensive, while their
left and right wings respectively bat-
ter Cracow and harass East Prussia.
Whether the German achievements
in Poland have been accomplished by
means of bringing up reinforcements
from the western battle front is a mat-
ter of considerable debate. A dispatch
The Vedra left Port Arthur for Lon-
don November 13 and passed Norfolk
on the 21st. She was reported yester-
day as passing Tuskar in the Irish Sea,
which would indicate that she had
changed her destination and was bound
for some port on the west coast of
England.
The Vedra was under the command
of Captain Brewster. - She was built in
1893 at Sunderland, England, was of
4057 tons, and belonged to the Asso-
ciated Oil Carriers Company of Lon-
don.
J V • somewhat cold-
T V. • er, freezing in
V • north portion,
frost in south
portion; Wednesday fair.
For Texas, west of 100th meridian:
Tonight fair except snow flurries in
the Panhandle, colder except in
southwest portion; Wednesday fair.
For Oklahoma: Tonight fair, cold-
er; Wednesday fair.
Winds on Texas coast: Light to
moderate northerly.
Shippers’ forecast: Prepare 36-
hour shipments to interior points for
temperatures of 28 to 30 degrees.
By Associated Press.
London, Dec. 8.—While the allied
armies in the west grope their way for-
ward cautiously, grappling with the
Germans here and there for slight ad-
vantages, the great struggle in Poland
continues, with the Germans for the
time being apparently scoring the most
points.
Russia has not yet fully conceded the
occupation of Lodz, but in view of the
repeated German claims and the Rus-
sian admission of the re-formation of
her battle line there, it would seem
that the German center has achieved
GERMAN ACTIVITY INCREASES.
By Associated Press.
Paris, Dec. 8.—Increased activity on the part of the Germans in
Belgium was reported in the official statement given out here this
afternoon.
The statement is as follows:
“During the day of the 7th the enemy has been more active than
the day before in the region of the Yser, and in the neighborhood of
Ypres. Our artillery has answered back with success.”
“In the region of Arras a very brilliant attack has given us pos-
session as we have announced of Vermelles and Rutoire. Vermelles
has been for nearly two months the scene of desperate fighting. The
enemy had taken footing there on October 16 and from October 21
to October 25 succeeded in forcing us back from that locality. From
the 29th of October, sapping and mining operations brought us back
until we were again in close contact and on the ist of December we
reoccupied the park and chateau of Vermelles.
“In the region of the Aisne and in Champagne there have been
some artillery engagements, and our heavy artillery dispersed several
gatherings of the enemy.
“In the Argonne, the forest of Grurie, and to the northwest of
Pont-a-Mousson, forest of Le Pretre, we have gained little ground.
“Along the rest of the front there is nothing to report.”
NO. 10.
RUSSIAN INVASION REPULSED.
By Associated Press.
Budapest, Dec. 8.—Via London, 3:35 p. m.—An official com-
munication issued here today stated that the Russian forces which
invaded Northern Hungary had been repulsed. The statement fol-
lows :
“The enemy who entered the counties of Saros and Miemplin
are everywhere in full retreat. Our troops are already in Galician
territory at several points. Only two or three communities in Hun-
garian territory are in the hands of the enemy.”
By Associated Press.
Berlin, By Wireless to London, Dec. 8.-—The official statement
issued by the German headquarters today says:
“On the coast of Flanders the bad conditions of the roads made
worse by the recent torrential rains, is causing great difficulty to the
movement of our troops.
“To the north of Arras we have made some slight progress.
“The war hospital at Lissle was burned down yesterday. This
is probably a case of arson. There were, however, no lives lost. ;
“The statement made by the French regarding an advance in the
forest of Argonne is not in accordance with the facts. For a long'
time past no French attacks whatever have taken place there. On
the contrary, we are continually gaining ground slowly.
“The day before yesterday a French position at Malincourt, east
of Varennes, was captured. The greater part of the garrison fell on
this occasion. The remainder, two officers and about 150 men,
were taken prisoners.
“A French attack on our positions to the north of Nancy was
repulsed yesterday.
“No special reports are at hand from the East Prussian frontier.
“In Northern Poland the German troops are closely pursuing
the retreating enemy to the east and south of Lodz. Besides the ex-
traordinarily large and sanguinary losses reported yesterday, the Rus-
sians have lost today about 1,500 prisoners and 16 cannon with am-
munition carts.
“In Southern Poland nothing special has happened.”
Official advices from Berlin today
confirm reports that the allies have
assumed the offensive in France and
Belgium, but do not indicate that the
movement has grown formidable. The
attacks, it is said, have been few in
number and have been defeated. Pri-
vate dispatches from Holland are to
the effect that fierce fighting is in
progress along the Yser canal. These
reports are in partial agreement with
the latest official French communica-
tions, which, however, tend to show
that the forward movement of the al-
lies is being attempted at points all
along the line.
Berlin is already looking toward the
possible investment of Warsaw as a
result of the capture of Lodz, Russian
Poland, it was said officially at the
Barrow, Dec. 8, via London.—The
British steamer Vedra, from Fort Ar-
thur, Texas, with a cargo of gasoline,
went ashore near here this morning in
a heavy gale. The cargo ignited, and.
of the crew of thirty-six men on board
the Vedra, only two were saved, and
they were severely burned.
this goal, upsetting what for a time .
was hailed as a decisive Russian vic- | Rufusa. of Operators Declared
Gentlemen of the Congress: The ses-
sion upon which you are now entering
will be the closing session of the sixty-
third! congress, a congress, I venture to
say, which will long be remembered for
the great body of thoughtful and con-
structive work which it has done, in
loyal response to the thought and needs
of the country. I should like in this
address to review the notable record
and try to make adequate assessment
of it, but no doubt we stand too near
the work that has been done and are
ourselves too much part of it to play
the part of historians toward it.
Moreover, our thoughts are now more
of the future than of the past. While
we have worked at our tasks of peace
the circumstances of the whole age
have been altered by war. What we
have done for our own land and our
own people we did with the best that
was in us, whether of character or of
intelligence, with sober enthusiasm and
a confidence in the principles upon
which we were acting which sustained
us at every step of the difficult under-
taking; but it is done. It has passed
from our hands. It is now an estab-
lished part of the legislation of the
country. Its usefulness, its effects will
disclose themselves in experience. What
chiefly strikes us nbw, as we look
about us during these closing days of a
year which will be forever memorable
in the history of the world, is that we
face new tasks, have been facing them
these six months, must face them in the
months to come—face them without
partisan feeling, like men who have
forgotten everything but a common
duty and the fact that we are repre-
sentatives of a great people whose
thought is not of us but of what
America owes to herself and to all man-
kind in such circumstances as these
upon which we look amazed and
anxious.
War has interrupted the means , of
trade not only but also the processes of
production. In Europe it is destroying
men and resources wholesale and upon
a scale unprecedented and appalling.
There is reason to fear that the time is
near, if it be not already at hand, when
several of the countries of Europe will
find it difficult to do for their people
what they have hitherto been always
easily able to do—many essential and
fundamental things. At any rate, they
will need our help and our manifold
services as they have never needed
them before; and we should be ready,
more fit and ready than we have ever
been.
German capital today that news of
decisive restlts in the campaign
against the Russians may bo expected
at any time and that latest reports
from the military headquarters led to
the belief that "operations thus far
have been successful.” It is reported
unofficially in Berlin that 100,000 Rus-
sians were captured at Lod.
In the Balkans, Austria's armies ap-
parently have met with checks in their
operations, recently attended with
marked success. An official statement
from Nish asserts that the Austrians
have been overwhelmed by the Ser-
vians in the recent fighting and have
retired in disorder, losing 1800 men.
Reports from Cettinje state that the
Austrians delivered several violent at-
tacks against the Montenegrin forces,
but were repulsed with heavy lossem
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By Associated Press.
Denver, Dec. 8.—A recommendation
to terminate the Colorado coal strike
which had its inception in the Nor-
thern Colorado fields in April, 1910,
and which for more than fourteen
months havs involved virtually the en-
tire coal mining industry of Colorado,
was contained in a communication
from the international executive board
of the United Mine Workers of Ameri-
ca presented by Frank J. Haynes, vice
president, to the union miners of Colo-
rado in convention here today.
“We recognize no surrender and will
continue to propagate the principles
of our humanitarian movement through
the coal fields of Colorado,” says the
communication.
After reviewing efforts of the fed-
eral government to settle the contro-
versy and quoting correspondence be-
tween President Wilson and the United
Mine Workers of America, the com-
munication says that in view of the re-
cent action of the president in appoint-
ing a federal mediation commission,
“we deem it the part of wisdom to ac-
cept his (the president’s) suggestion
and to terminate the strike.”
ACCEPTED MEDIATION.
strike, the communication states, began
with the acceptance Sept. 16 of Presi-
dent Wilson’s proposal of a three year
truce. This action was taken by a
district convention at Trinidad.
“We were of the opinion,” says the
report, “that such action on our part
would speedily terminate the strike,
not thinking for an instant that the
operators would refuse the president’s
plan of settlement, when this plan
meant the impartial enforcement of the
labor and minig laws of Colorado and
the appointment of an industrial com-
mission by the president to see such
laws were enforced.
“Refusal of the operators to accept
the plan and insistence on the contin-
uation of a system which stands for in-
dustrial chaos and anarchy, forfeits the
support of every right thinking, law
abiding American citizen.
“When the operators refused to ac-
cet the president’s proposal we hoped
President Wilson would enforce his
proposition by governmental action.
After waiting more than two months
we met the president at the White house
Nov. 19. He told us he was legally ad-
vised he could not take over the Colo-
rado coal mines and operate them un-
der governmental supervision. The
president expressed deep regret that
the operators had seen fit to disre-
gard his wishes, and informed us he
would do everything he could legally
to bring about a settlement of the con-
troversy.”
After quoting the communication of
President Wilson on Dec. 1st announc-
ing the appointment of a federal me-
diation commission to deal with fu-
ture controversies between operators
(Continued on Ninth Page.)
stunted and hindered the development
of our merchant marine. And now,
when we need ships, we have not got
them. We have year after year de-
bated, without end or conclusion, the
best policy to pursue with regard to
the use of the ores and forests and
water powers of our national domain
in the rich states of the west, when we
should have acted; and they are still
locked up. They key is still turned
upon them, the door shut fast at which
thousands of vigorous men, full of
initiative, knock clamorously for ad-
mittance. The water power of our
navigable streams outside the national
domain also, even in the eastern states,
where we have worked and planned for
measure of self-government to the peo-
ple of the Philippines. How better, in
this time of anxious questioning and
perplexed policy, could we show our
confidence in the principles of liberty,
as the source as well as the expression
of life, how better could we demon-
strate our own self-possession and
steadfastness in the courses of justice
and disinterestedness than by thus go-
ing calmly forward to fulfill our prom-
ises to a dependent people, who will
now look more anxiously than ever to
see whether we have indeed the lib-
erality, the unselfishness, the courage,
the faith we have boasted and pro-
fessed. I can not believe that the sen-
ate will let this great measure of con-
structive justice await the action of
aonther congress. Its passage would
nobly crown the record of these two
years of memorable labor.
TASK NOT COMPETE.
But I think that you will agree with
me that this does not complete the toll
of our duty. How are we to carry our
goods to the empty markets of which
I have spoken if we , have not the
ships? How are we to .build up a great
trade if we have not the certain and
constant means of transportation upon
which all profitable and useful com-
merce depends? And how are we to
get the ships if we wait for the trade
to develop without them? To correct
the many mistakes by which we have
discouraged and all but destroyed the
merchant marine of the country, to
retrace the steps by which we have, it
seems almost deliberately, withdrawn
our flag from the seas, except where,
(Continued on Eighth Page.)
TRADE OPENINGS.
It is of equal consequence that the
nations whom Europe has usually sup-
plied with innumerable articles of
manufacture and commerce of which
they are in constant need and without
which their economic development halts
and stands still can now get only a
small part of what they formerly im-
ported and eagerly look to us to sup-
ply their all but empty markets. This
is particularly true of our own neigh-
bors, the states, great and small, of
Central and South America. Their lines
of trade have hitherto run chiefly
athwart the seas, not to our ports but
to the ports of Great Britain and of the
older continent of Europe. I do not
stop to inquire why, or to make any
comment on probable causes. What in-
terests us just now is not the explana-
tion but the fact, and our duty and op-
portunity in the presence of it. Here
are markets which we must supply, and
we must find the means of action. The
United States, this great people for
whom we "speak and act, should be
ready, as never before, to serve itself
and to serve mankind; ready with its
resources, its energies, its forces of
production, and its means of distribu-
tion.
It is a very practical matter, a matter
of ways and means. We have the re-
sources, but are we fully ready to use
them? And, if we can make ready what
we have, have we the means to dis-
tribute it? We are not fully ready;
neither have we the means of distribu-
tion. We are willing, but we are not
fully able. We have the wish to serve
and to serve greatly, generously; but
we are not prepared as we should be.
We are not ready to mobolize our re-
sources at once. We are not prepared
to use them immediately and at their
best, without delay and without waste.
NATION HAS ERRED.
To speak plainly, we have grossly
erred in the way in which we have
from Petrograd says it has been
learned authoritatively there that the
Germans transferred six army corps
and five cavalry divisions from the
west to the east, but there has been so
much unfounded speculation as to the
movements of German troops that all
reports of this nature must be dis-
counted. It is true that the tendency
of the Germans in the west has been
inclining more to the defensive, but
London papers caution the public that
there is nothing to indicate that the
German forces have been weakened se-
riously by shifts of troops to the east.
The fighting in Poland has been dif-
ferent from that anywhere else in the
war area. In the west the allies have
always been able to hold their ground
after an advance, but the present re-
capture of Lodz marks the third in-
vasion of Poland since the war began.
Today Berlin is decorated in celebra-
tion of the occupation of Lodz, and
there is great enthusiasm at the Ger-
man capital.
The first German invasion of Poland
was made from the south by Austro-
Hungarian forces in August. The Rus-
sians checked this movement in Sep-
tember. Later the Austrians concen-
trated around Cracow and made a sec-
ond advance in concert with a German
forward movement from Breslau, Posen
and Thorn. This advance almost
reached Warsaw, but the Russians re-
pulsed it, not only driving back the
Germans to their own borders, but
throwing Cossack advance patrols into
Silesia.
This feat was acclaimed by the Rus-
sians at the time as the forerunner to
a march on Berlin, but the Germans,
with reinforcements, beat back the in-
vaders and swept on to their present
position, notwithstanding the fact that
at one time they were threatened with
a disastrous defeat.
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generations, is still not used as it
might be, because we will and we
won’t; because the laws we have made
do not intelligently balance encourage-
ment against restraint. We withhold
by regulation.
I have come to ask you to remedy
and correct these mistakes and omis-
sions, even at this short session of a
congress which would certainly seem
to have done all the work that could
reasonably be expected of it. The time
and the circumstances are extraordi-
nary, and so must our efforts be also.
TWO MEASURES.
Fortunately, two great measures,
finely conceived, the one to unlock,
with proper safeguards, the resources
of the national domain, the other to en-
courage the use of the navigable waters
outside that domain for the generation
of power, have already passed the house
of representatives and are ready for
immediate consideration and action by
the senate. With the deepest earnest-
ness I urge their prompt passage. In
them both we turn our backs upon hesi-
tation and makeshift and formulate a
genuine policy of use and conservation,
in the best sense of those words. We
owe the one measure not only to the
people of that great western country
for whose free and systematic develop-
ment, as it seems to me, our legislation
has done so little, but also to the peo-
ple of the nation as a whole; and we as
clearly owe the other in fulfillment of
our repeated promises that the water
power of the country should in fact as
well as in name be put at the disposal
of great industries which can make
economical and profitable use of it, the
rights of the public being adequately
guarded the while, and monopoly in
the use prevented. To have begun such
measures and not completed them
would indeed mar the record of this
great congress very seriously. I hope
and confidently believe that they will
be completed.
And there is another great piece of
cotton, however, is far from nor-
mal, as last year’s exports for
the three months were 4,206,581
bales. November’s exports last
year were 1,501,259 bales. Im-
ports during November were 14,-
574 bales.
barrassment. It is the road to un-
grudged, unclouded success. In it
every honest man, every man who be-
lieves that the public interest is part of
his own interest, may walk with per-
fect confidence.”
In the text of his address, which
touched on the administration legisla-
tive program, for the session, urging
passage of bills for Philippine inde-
pendence, government-owned merchant
marine and some other projects begun
but unfinished at the last session, the
president devoted most time to dis-
cussing the question of national de-
fense, deploring a policy of militarism,
but indorsing a development- of the na-
tional guard and a military training for
citizens.
The Democratic side of both house
and senate greeted with applause and
laughter his declaration that “some
among us are nervous and excited” and
that “we shall not turn America into a
military camp.”
“And especially when half the world
is on fire,” said the president, “we
shall be careful to make our moral in-
surance against the spread of the con-
flagration very definite and certain and
adequate indeed.”
This sentiment was favorably re-
ceived on both sides of the chamber.
The president’s address, the longest he
has yet delivered to congress, occupied
about 40 minutes in reading.
GALLERIES PACKED.
Crowds packed the galleries and sen-
ators and representatives crowded the
floor of the house to wait the arri-
val of the president. Seven members
of the cabinet had seats just before
the speaker’s desk, including Secre-
tary Bryan, who deserted his usual
place, in the diplomatic gallery.
The president entered the chamber
at 12 :30 o’clock greeted by applause and
cheers as he shook hands with the
speaker and the vice president. A mo-
ment later he began slowly reading his
address, and his voice was a trifle
husky. He first was interrupted by
scattered applause when he asserted
“we have stunted and hindered the
growth of our merchant marine.”
After speaking of the “notable rec-
ord” o flesislation of the administra-
tion the president departed from his
prepared address to say the program of
the administration with regard to leg-
islation affecting business “virtually'is
completed.”
“It had been put forth by congress »
the president continued, “as we intend
(Continued on Ninth Page.)
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ep
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 8.—Cotton
exports grew considerably dur-
ing November when 760,349 bales
went abroad, according to an-
nouncement of the census bureau
today. That was more than was
shipped during September and
October combined, and brought
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 8.—President Wil-
son departed from the prepared text of
his annual address to congress today,
which was devoted principally to an-
swering those who contend that the
United States,is unprepared for national
defense, to give notice to the business
world that the legislative program of
his administration, as it affects regu-
lation of business, virtually was com-
pleted.
He said it had resulted in a clear
road for business to travel to “un-
clouded success.” Honest business men,
the president said, need have nothing
to fear in treading the way outlined in
the trust and currency bills.
While the president dwelt briefly on
the subject, his words were interpreted
as an assurance that no further busi-
ness legislation was contemplated. The
president’s remarks in full with rela-
tion to business relations were as fol-
lows :
“Our program of legislation with re-
gard to the regulation of business is
now virtually complete. It has been
put forth, as we intended, as a whole
and leaves no conjecture as to what is
to follow. The road at last lies clear
and firm before business. It is a road
which it can travel without fear or em-
Final efforts on the part of
United Mine Workers to settle
GALVESTON TEXAS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1914. TWELVE PAGES
By Associated Press.
Washington, Dec. 8.—President Wilson, in his annual address
to congress today, gave his answer to those who contend the United
States is unprepared for national defense.
“Let there be no misconception,” he said. “The country has been
misinformed. We have not been negligent of national defense. We
are not unmindful of the great responsibility resting upon us. We
shall learn and profit by the lesson of every experience and every
new circumstance; and what is needed will be adequately done.”
Assembled in joint session in the hall of the house, senators
and representatives heard the president, reading his address in per-
son from the clerk’s desk, outline the administration legislative pro-
gram and voice a fervent hope that the United States might be in-
strumental in bringing peace to Europe. The legislative program
includes passage of the conservation bills, the bills for ultimate in-
dependence of the Philippines, ratification of the London convention
for safety at sea, a government owned merchant marine, charting
the perilous waters of the Alaskan coast and measures for economy
in all branches of the government.
The president’s address in full follows:
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Galveston Tribune. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 10, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 8, 1914, newspaper, December 8, 1914; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1438252/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.