
 In fulfilling at this time the duty laid upon me by the Constitution of communicating to you from time to time information of the state of the Union and recommending to your consideration such legislative measures as may be judged necessary and expedient, I shall continue the practice, which I hope has been acceptable to you, of leaving to the reports of the several heads of the executive departments the elaboration of the detailed needs of the public service and confine myself to those matters of more general public policy with which it seems necessary and feasible to deal at the present session of the Congress.
 I realize the limitations of time under which you will necessarily act at this session and shall make my suggestions as few as possible; but there were some things left undone at the last session which there will now be time to complete and which it seems necessary in the interest of the public to do at once.
 In the first place, it seems to me imperatively necessary that the earliest possible consideration and action should be accorded the remaining measures of the program of settlement and regulation which I had occasion to recommend to you at the close of your last session in view of the public dangers disclosed by the unaccommodated difficulties which then existed, and which still unhappily continue to exist, between the railroads of the country and their locomotive engineers, conductors and trainmen.
 I then recommended:
 First, immediate provision for the enlargement and administrative reorganization of the Interstate Commerce Commission along the lines embodied in the bill recently passed by the House of Representatives and now awaiting action by the Senate; in order that the Commission may be enabled to deal with the many great and various duties now devolving upon it with a promptness and thoroughness which are, with its present constitution and means of action, practically impossible.
 Second, the establishment of an eight-hour day as the legal basis alike of work and wages in the employment of all railway employes who are actually engaged in the work of operating trains in interstate transportation.
 Third, the authorization of the appointment by the President of a small body of men to observe actual results in experience of the adoption of the eight-hour day in railway transportation alike for the men and for the railroads.
 Fourth, explicit approval by the Congress of the consideration by the Interstate Commerce Commission of an increase of freight rates to meet such additional expenditures by the railroads as may have been rendered necessary by the adoption of the eight-hour day and which have not been offset by administrative readjustments and economies, should the facts disclosed justify the increase.
 Fifth, an amendment of the existing Federal statute which provides for the mediation, conciliation and arbitration of such controversies as the present by adding to it a provision that, in case the methods of accommodation now provided for should fail, a full public investigation of the merits of every such dispute shall be instituted and completed before a strike or lockout may lawfully be attempted.
 And, sixth, the lodgment in the hands of the Executive of the power, in case of military necessity, to take control of such portions and such rolling stock of the railways of the country as may be required for military use and to operate them for military purposes, with authority to draft into the military service of the United States such train crews and administrative officials as the circumstances require for their safe and efficient use.
 The second and third of these recommendations the Congress immediately acted on: it established the eight-hour day as the legal basis of work and wages in train service and it authorized the appointment of a commission to observe and report upon the practical results, deeming these the measures most immediately needed; but it postponed action upon the other suggestions until an opportunity should be offered for a more deliberate consideration of them.
 The fourth recommendation I do not deem it necessary to renew. The power of the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant an increase of rates on the ground referred to is indisputably clear and a recommendation by the Congress with regard to such a matter might seem to draw in question the scope of the commission's authority or its inclination to do justice when there is no reason to doubt either.
 The other suggestions-the increase in the Interstate Commerce Commission's membership and in its facilities for performing its manifold duties; the provision for full public investigation and assessment of industrial disputes, and the grant to the Executive of the power to control and operate the railways when necessary in time of war or other like public necessity-I now very earnestly renew.
 The necessity for such legislation is manifest and pressing. Those who have entrusted us with the responsibility and duty of serving and safeguarding them in such matters would find it hard, I believe, to excuse a failure to act upon these grave matters or any unnecessary postponement of action upon them.
 Not only does the Interstate Commerce Commission now find it practically impossible, with its present membership and organization, to perform its great functions promptly and thoroughly, but it is not unlikely that it may presently be found advisable to add to its duties still others equally heavy and exacting. It must first be perfected as an administrative instrument.
 The country cannot and should not consent to remain any longer exposed to profound industrial disturbances for lack of additional means of arbitration and conciliation which the Congress can easily and promptly supply.
 And all will agree that there must be no doubt as to the power of the Executive to make immediate and uninterrupted use of the railroads for the concentration of the military forces of the nation wherever they are needed and whenever they are needed.
 This is a program of regulation, prevention and administrative efficiency which argues its own case in the mere statement of it. With regard to one of its items, the increase in the efficiency of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the House of Representatives has already acted; its action needs only the concurrence of the Senate.
 I would hesitate to recommend, and I dare say the Congress would hesitate to act upon the suggestion should I make it, that any man in any I occupation should be obliged by law to continue in an employment which he desired to leave.
 To pass a law which forbade or prevented the individual workman to leave his work before receiving the approval of society in doing so would be to adopt a new principle into our jurisprudence, which I take it for granted we are not prepared to introduce.
 But the proposal that the operation of the railways of the country shall not be stopped or interrupted by the concerted action of organized bodies of men until a public investigation shall have been instituted, which shall make the whole question at issue plain for the judgment of the opinion of the nation, is not to propose any such principle.
 It is based upon the very different principle that the concerted action of powerful bodies of men shall not be permitted to stop the industrial processes of the nation, at any rate before the nation shall have had an opportunity to acquaint itself with the merits of the case as between employe and employer, time to form its opinion upon an impartial statement of the merits, and opportunity to consider all practicable means of conciliation or arbitration.
 I can see nothing in that proposition but the justifiable safeguarding by society of the necessary processes of its very life. There is nothing arbitrary or unjust in it unless it be arbitrarily and unjustly done. It can and should be done with a full and scrupulous regard for the interests and liberties of all concerned as well as for the permanent interests of society itself.
 Three matters of capital importance await the action of the Senate which have already been acted upon by the House of Representatives; the bill which seeks to extend greater freedom of combination to those engaged in promoting the foreign commerce of the country than is now thought by some to be legal under the terms of the laws against monopoly; the bill amending the present organic law of Porto Rico; and the bill proposing a more thorough and systematic regulation of the expenditure of money in elections, commonly called the Corrupt Practices Act.
 I need not labor my advice that these measures be enacted into law. Their urgency lies in the manifest circumstances which render their adoption at this time not only opportune but necessary. Even delay would seriously jeopard the interests of the country and of the Government.
 Immediate passage of the bill to regulate the expenditure of money in elections may seem to be less necessary than the immediate enactment of the other measures to which I refer, because at least two years will elapse before another election in which Federal offices are to be filled; but it would greatly relieve the public mind if this important matter were dealt with while the circumstances and the dangers to the public morals of the present method of obtaining and spending campaign funds stand clear under recent observation, and the methods of expenditure can be frankly studied in the light of present experience; and a delay would have the further very serious disadvantage of postponing action until another election was at hand and some special object connected with it might be thought to be in the mind of those who urged it. Action can be taken now with facts for guidance and without suspicion of partisan purpose.
 I shall not argue at length the desirability of giving a freer hand in the matter of combined and concerted effort to those who shall undertake the essential enterprise of building up our export trade. That enterprise will presently, will immediately assume, has indeed already assumed a magnitude unprecedented in our experience. We have not the necessary instrumentalities for its prosecution; it is deemed to be doubtful whether they could be created upon an adequate scale under our present laws.
 We should clear away all legal obstacles and create a basis of undoubted law for it which will give freedom without permitting unregulated license. The thing must be done now, because the opportunity is here and may escape us if we hesitate or delay.
 The argument for the proposed amendments of the organic law of Porto Rico is brief and conclusive. The present laws governing the island and regulating the rights and privileges of its people are not just. We have created expectations of extended privilege which we have not satisfied. There is uneasiness among the people of the island and even a suspicious doubt with regard to our intentions concerning them which the adoption of the pending measure would happily remove. We do not doubt what we wish to do in any essential particular. We ought to do it at once.
 At the last session of the Congress a bill was passed by the Senate which provides for the promotion of vocational and industrial education, which is of vital importance to the whole country because it concerns a matter, too long neglected, upon which the thorough industrial preparation of the country for the critical years of economic development immediately ahead of us in very large measure depends.
 May I not urge its early and favorable consideration by the House of Representatives and its early enactment into law? It contains plans which affect all interests and all parts of the country, and I am sure that there is no legislation now pending before the Congress whose passage the country awaits with more thoughtful approval or greater impatience to see a great and admirable thing set in the way of being done.
 There are other matters already advanced to the stage of conference between the two houses of which it is not necessary that I should speak. Some practicable basis of agreement concerning them will no doubt be found an action taken upon them.
 Inasmuch as this is, gentlemen , probably the last occasion I shall have to address the Sixty-fourth Congress, I hope that you will permit me to say with what genuine pleasure and satisfaction I have co-operated with you in the many measures of constructive policy with which you have enriched the legislative annals of the country. It has been a privilege to labor in such company. I take the liberty of congratulating you upon the completion of a record of rare serviceableness and distinction.
In fulfilling at this time the duty laid upon me by the Constitution of communicating to you from time to time information of the state of the Union and recommending to your consideration such legislative measures as may be judged necessary and expedient, I shall continue the practice, which I hope has been acceptable to you, of leaving to the reports of the several heads of the executive departments the elaboration of the detailed needs of the public service and confine myself to those matters of more general public policy with which it seems necessary and feasible to deal at the present session of the Congress. I realize the limitations of time under which you will necessarily act at this session and shall make my suggestions as few as possible; but there were some things left undone at the last session which there will now be time to complete and which it seems necessary in the interest of the public to do at once. In the first place, it seems to me imperatively necessary that the earliest possible consideration and action should be accorded the remaining measures of the program of settlement and regulation which I had occasion to recommend to you at the close of your last session in view of the public dangers disclosed by the unaccommodated difficulties which then existed, and which still unhappily continue to exist, between the railroads of the country and their locomotive engineers, conductors and trainmen. I then recommended: First, immediate provision for the enlargement and administrative reorganization of the Interstate Commerce Commission along the lines embodied in the bill recently passed by the House of Representatives and now awaiting action by the Senate; in order that the Commission may be enabled to deal with the many great and various duties now devolving upon it with a promptness and thoroughness which are, with its present constitution and means of action, practically impossible. Second, the establishment of an eight-hour day as the legal basis alike of work and wages in the employment of all railway employes who are actually engaged in the work of operating trains in interstate transportation. Third, the authorization of the appointment by the President of a small body of men to observe actual results in experience of the adoption of the eight-hour day in railway transportation alike for the men and for the railroads. Fourth, explicit approval by the Congress of the consideration by the Interstate Commerce Commission of an increase of freight rates to meet such additional expenditures by the railroads as may have been rendered necessary by the adoption of the eight-hour day and which have not been offset by administrative readjustments and economies, should the facts disclosed justify the increase. Fifth, an amendment of the existing Federal statute which provides for the mediation, conciliation and arbitration of such controversies as the present by adding to it a provision that, in case the methods of accommodation now provided for should fail, a full public investigation of the merits of every such dispute shall be instituted and completed before a strike or lockout may lawfully be attempted. And, sixth, the lodgment in the hands of the Executive of the power, in case of military necessity, to take control of such portions and such rolling stock of the railways of the country as may be required for military use and to operate them for military purposes, with authority to draft into the military service of the United States such train crews and administrative officials as the circumstances require for their safe and efficient use. The second and third of these recommendations the Congress immediately acted on: it established the eight-hour day as the legal basis of work and wages in train service and it authorized the appointment of a commission to observe and report upon the practical results, deeming these the measures most immediately needed; but it postponed action upon the other suggestions until an opportunity should be offered for a more deliberate consideration of them. The fourth recommendation I do not deem it necessary to renew. The power of the Interstate Commerce Commission to grant an increase of rates on the ground referred to is indisputably clear and a recommendation by the Congress with regard to such a matter might seem to draw in question the scope of the commission's authority or its inclination to do justice when there is no reason to doubt either. The other suggestions-the increase in the Interstate Commerce Commission's membership and in its facilities for performing its manifold duties; the provision for full public investigation and assessment of industrial disputes, and the grant to the Executive of the power to control and operate the railways when necessary in time of war or other like public necessity-I now very earnestly renew. The necessity for such legislation is manifest and pressing. Those who have entrusted us with the responsibility and duty of serving and safeguarding them in such matters would find it hard, I believe, to excuse a failure to act upon these grave matters or any unnecessary postponement of action upon them. Not only does the Interstate Commerce Commission now find it practically impossible, with its present membership and organization, to perform its great functions promptly and thoroughly, but it is not unlikely that it may presently be found advisable to add to its duties still others equally heavy and exacting. It must first be perfected as an administrative instrument. The country cannot and should not consent to remain any longer exposed to profound industrial disturbances for lack of additional means of arbitration and conciliation which the Congress can easily and promptly supply. And all will agree that there must be no doubt as to the power of the Executive to make immediate and uninterrupted use of the railroads for the concentration of the military forces of the nation wherever they are needed and whenever they are needed. This is a program of regulation, prevention and administrative efficiency which argues its own case in the mere statement of it. With regard to one of its items, the increase in the efficiency of the Interstate Commerce Commission, the House of Representatives has already acted; its action needs only the concurrence of the Senate. I would hesitate to recommend, and I dare say the Congress would hesitate to act upon the suggestion should I make it, that any man in any I occupation should be obliged by law to continue in an employment which he desired to leave. To pass a law which forbade or prevented the individual workman to leave his work before receiving the approval of society in doing so would be to adopt a new principle into our jurisprudence, which I take it for granted we are not prepared to introduce. But the proposal that the operation of the railways of the country shall not be stopped or interrupted by the concerted action of organized bodies of men until a public investigation shall have been instituted, which shall make the whole question at issue plain for the judgment of the opinion of the nation, is not to propose any such principle. It is based upon the very different principle that the concerted action of powerful bodies of men shall not be permitted to stop the industrial processes of the nation, at any rate before the nation shall have had an opportunity to acquaint itself with the merits of the case as between employe and employer, time to form its opinion upon an impartial statement of the merits, and opportunity to consider all practicable means of conciliation or arbitration. I can see nothing in that proposition but the justifiable safeguarding by society of the necessary processes of its very life. There is nothing arbitrary or unjust in it unless it be arbitrarily and unjustly done. It can and should be done with a full and scrupulous regard for the interests and liberties of all concerned as well as for the permanent interests of society itself. Three matters of capital importance await the action of the Senate which have already been acted upon by the House of Representatives; the bill which seeks to extend greater freedom of combination to those engaged in promoting the foreign commerce of the country than is now thought by some to be legal under the terms of the laws against monopoly; the bill amending the present organic law of Porto Rico; and the bill proposing a more thorough and systematic regulation of the expenditure of money in elections, commonly called the Corrupt Practices Act. I need not labor my advice that these measures be enacted into law. Their urgency lies in the manifest circumstances which render their adoption at this time not only opportune but necessary. Even delay would seriously jeopard the interests of the country and of the Government. Immediate passage of the bill to regulate the expenditure of money in elections may seem to be less necessary than the immediate enactment of the other measures to which I refer, because at least two years will elapse before another election in which Federal offices are to be filled; but it would greatly relieve the public mind if this important matter were dealt with while the circumstances and the dangers to the public morals of the present method of obtaining and spending campaign funds stand clear under recent observation, and the methods of expenditure can be frankly studied in the light of present experience; and a delay would have the further very serious disadvantage of postponing action until another election was at hand and some special object connected with it might be thought to be in the mind of those who urged it. Action can be taken now with facts for guidance and without suspicion of partisan purpose. I shall not argue at length the desirability of giving a freer hand in the matter of combined and concerted effort to those who shall undertake the essential enterprise of building up our export trade. That enterprise will presently, will immediately assume, has indeed already assumed a magnitude unprecedented in our experience. We have not the necessary instrumentalities for its prosecution; it is deemed to be doubtful whether they could be created upon an adequate scale under our present laws. We should clear away all legal obstacles and create a basis of undoubted law for it which will give freedom without permitting unregulated license. The thing must be done now, because the opportunity is here and may escape us if we hesitate or delay. The argument for the proposed amendments of the organic law of Porto Rico is brief and conclusive. The present laws governing the island and regulating the rights and privileges of its people are not just. We have created expectations of extended privilege which we have not satisfied. There is uneasiness among the people of the island and even a suspicious doubt with regard to our intentions concerning them which the adoption of the pending measure would happily remove. We do not doubt what we wish to do in any essential particular. We ought to do it at once. At the last session of the Congress a bill was passed by the Senate which provides for the promotion of vocational and industrial education, which is of vital importance to the whole country because it concerns a matter, too long neglected, upon which the thorough industrial preparation of the country for the critical years of economic development immediately ahead of us in very large measure depends. May I not urge its early and favorable consideration by the House of Representatives and its early enactment into law? It contains plans which affect all interests and all parts of the country, and I am sure that there is no legislation now pending before the Congress whose passage the country awaits with more thoughtful approval or greater impatience to see a great and admirable thing set in the way of being done. There are other matters already advanced to the stage of conference between the two houses of which it is not necessary that I should speak. Some practicable basis of agreement concerning them will no doubt be found an action taken upon them. Inasmuch as this is, gentlemen , probably the last occasion I shall have to address the Sixty-fourth Congress, I hope that you will permit me to say with what genuine pleasure and satisfaction I have co-operated with you in the many measures of constructive policy with which you have enriched the legislative annals of the country. It has been a privilege to labor in such company. I take the liberty of congratulating you upon the completion of a record of rare serviceableness and distinction.
in fulfilling at this time the duty laid upon me by the constitution of communicating to you from time to time information of the state of the union and recommending to your consideration such legislative measures as may be judged necessary and expedient i shall continue the practice which i hope has been acceptable to you of leaving to the reports of the several heads of the executive departments the elaboration of the detailed needs of the public service and confine myself to those matters of more general public policy with which it seems necessary and feasible to deal at the present session of the congress i realize the limitations of time under which you will necessarily act at this session and shall make my suggestions as few as possible but there were some things left undone at the last session which there will now be time to complete and which it seems necessary in the interest of the public to do at once in the first place it seems to me imperatively necessary that the earliest possible consideration and action should be accorded the remaining measures of the program of settlement and regulation which i had occasion to recommend to you at the close of your last session in view of the public dangers disclosed by the unaccommodated difficulties which then existed and which still unhappily continue to exist between the railroads of the country and their locomotive engineers conductors and trainmen i then recommended first immediate provision for the enlargement and administrative reorganization of the interstate commerce commission along the lines embodied in the bill recently passed by the house of representatives and now awaiting action by the senate in order that the commission may be enabled to deal with the many great and various duties now devolving upon it with a promptness and thoroughness which are with its present constitution and means of action practically impossible second the establishment of an day as the legal basis alike of work and wages in the employment of all railway employes who are actually engaged in the work of operating trains in interstate transportation third the authorization of the appointment by the president of a small body of men to observe actual results in experience of the adoption of the day in railway transportation alike for the men and for the railroads fourth explicit approval by the congress of the consideration by the interstate commerce commission of an increase of freight rates to meet such additional expenditures by the railroads as may have been rendered necessary by the adoption of the day and which have not been offset by administrative readjustments and economies should the facts disclosed justify the increase fifth an amendment of the existing federal statute which provides for the mediation conciliation and arbitration of such controversies as the present by adding to it a provision that in case the methods of accommodation now provided for should fail a full public investigation of the merits of every such dispute shall be instituted and completed before a strike or lockout may lawfully be attempted and sixth the lodgment in the hands of the executive of the power in case of military necessity to take control of such portions and such rolling stock of the railways of the country as may be required for military use and to operate them for military purposes with authority to draft into the military service of the united states such train crews and administrative officials as the circumstances require for their safe and efficient use the second and third of these recommendations the congress immediately acted on it established the day as the legal basis of work and wages in train service and it authorized the appointment of a commission to observe and report upon the practical results deeming these the measures most immediately needed but it postponed action upon the other suggestions until an opportunity should be offered for a more deliberate consideration of them the fourth recommendation i do not deem it necessary to renew the power of the interstate commerce commission to grant an increase of rates on the ground referred to is indisputably clear and a recommendation by the congress with regard to such a matter might seem to draw in question the scope of the commission authority or its inclination to do justice when there is no reason to doubt either the other increase in the interstate commerce commission membership and in its facilities for performing its manifold duties the provision for full public investigation and assessment of industrial disputes and the grant to the executive of the power to control and operate the railways when necessary in time of war or other like public now very earnestly renew the necessity for such legislation is manifest and pressing those who have entrusted us with the responsibility and duty of serving and safeguarding them in such matters would find it hard i believe to excuse a failure to act upon these grave matters or any unnecessary postponement of action upon them not only does the interstate commerce commission now find it practically impossible with its present membership and organization to perform its great functions promptly and thoroughly but it is not unlikely that it may presently be found advisable to add to its duties still others equally heavy and exacting it must first be perfected as an administrative instrument the country can not and should not consent to remain any longer exposed to profound industrial disturbances for lack of additional means of arbitration and conciliation which the congress can easily and promptly supply and all will agree that there must be no doubt as to the power of the executive to make immediate and uninterrupted use of the railroads for the concentration of the military forces of the nation wherever they are needed and whenever they are needed this is a program of regulation prevention and administrative efficiency which argues its own case in the mere statement of it with regard to one of its items the increase in the efficiency of the interstate commerce commission the house of representatives has already acted its action needs only the concurrence of the senate i would hesitate to recommend and i dare say the congress would hesitate to act upon the suggestion should i make it that any man in any i occupation should be obliged by law to continue in an employment which he desired to leave to pass a law which forbade or prevented the individual workman to leave his work before receiving the approval of society in doing so would be to adopt a new principle into our jurisprudence which i take it for granted we are not prepared to introduce but the proposal that the operation of the railways of the country shall not be stopped or interrupted by the concerted action of organized bodies of men until a public investigation shall have been instituted which shall make the whole question at issue plain for the judgment of the opinion of the nation is not to propose any such principle it is based upon the very different principle that the concerted action of powerful bodies of men shall not be permitted to stop the industrial processes of the nation at any rate before the nation shall have had an opportunity to acquaint itself with the merits of the case as between employe and employer time to form its opinion upon an impartial statement of the merits and opportunity to consider all practicable means of conciliation or arbitration i can see nothing in that proposition but the justifiable safeguarding by society of the necessary processes of its very life there is nothing arbitrary or unjust in it unless it be arbitrarily and unjustly done it can and should be done with a full and scrupulous regard for the interests and liberties of all concerned as well as for the permanent interests of society itself three matters of capital importance await the action of the senate which have already been acted upon by the house of representatives the bill which seeks to extend greater freedom of combination to those engaged in promoting the foreign commerce of the country than is now thought by some to be legal under the terms of the laws against monopoly the bill amending the present organic law of porto rico and the bill proposing a more thorough and systematic regulation of the expenditure of money in elections commonly called the corrupt practices act i need not labor my advice that these measures be enacted into law their urgency lies in the manifest circumstances which render their adoption at this time not only opportune but necessary even delay would seriously jeopard the interests of the country and of the government immediate passage of the bill to regulate the expenditure of money in elections may seem to be less necessary than the immediate enactment of the other measures to which i refer because at least two years will elapse before another election in which federal offices are to be filled but it would greatly relieve the public mind if this important matter were dealt with while the circumstances and the dangers to the public morals of the present method of obtaining and spending campaign funds stand clear under recent observation and the methods of expenditure can be frankly studied in the light of present experience and a delay would have the further very serious disadvantage of postponing action until another election was at hand and some special object connected with it might be thought to be in the mind of those who urged it action can be taken now with facts for guidance and without suspicion of partisan purpose i shall not argue at length the desirability of giving a freer hand in the matter of combined and concerted effort to those who shall undertake the essential enterprise of building up our export trade that enterprise will presently will immediately assume has indeed already assumed a magnitude unprecedented in our experience we have not the necessary instrumentalities for its prosecution it is deemed to be doubtful whether they could be created upon an adequate scale under our present laws we should clear away all legal obstacles and create a basis of undoubted law for it which will give freedom without permitting unregulated license the thing must be done now because the opportunity is here and may escape us if we hesitate or delay the argument for the proposed amendments of the organic law of porto rico is brief and conclusive the present laws governing the island and regulating the rights and privileges of its people are not just we have created expectations of extended privilege which we have not satisfied there is uneasiness among the people of the island and even a suspicious doubt with regard to our intentions concerning them which the adoption of the pending measure would happily remove we do not doubt what we wish to do in any essential particular we ought to do it at once at the last session of the congress a bill was passed by the senate which provides for the promotion of vocational and industrial education which is of vital importance to the whole country because it concerns a matter too long neglected upon which the thorough industrial preparation of the country for the critical years of economic development immediately ahead of us in very large measure depends may i not urge its early and favorable consideration by the house of representatives and its early enactment into law it contains plans which affect all interests and all parts of the country and i am sure that there is no legislation now pending before the congress whose passage the country awaits with more thoughtful approval or greater impatience to see a great and admirable thing set in the way of being done there are other matters already advanced to the stage of conference between the two houses of which it is not necessary that i should speak some practicable basis of agreement concerning them will no doubt be found an action taken upon them inasmuch as this is gentlemen probably the last occasion i shall have to address the congress i hope that you will permit me to say with what genuine pleasure and satisfaction i have with you in the many measures of constructive policy with which you have enriched the legislative annals of the country it has been a privilege to labor in such company i take the liberty of congratulating you upon the completion of a record of rare serviceableness and distinction
fulfilling time duty laid upon constitution communicating time time information state union recommending consideration legislative measures may judged necessary expedient shall continue practice hope acceptable leaving reports several heads executive departments elaboration detailed needs public service confine matters general public policy seems necessary feasible deal present session congress realize limitations time necessarily act session shall make suggestions possible things left undone last session time complete seems necessary interest public first place seems imperatively necessary earliest possible consideration action accorded remaining measures program settlement regulation occasion recommend close last session view public dangers disclosed unaccommodated difficulties existed still unhappily continue exist railroads country locomotive engineers conductors trainmen recommended first immediate provision enlargement administrative reorganization interstate commerce commission along lines embodied bill recently passed house representatives awaiting action senate order commission may enabled deal many great various duties devolving upon promptness thoroughness present constitution means action practically impossible second establishment day legal basis alike work wages employment railway employes actually engaged work operating trains interstate transportation third authorization appointment president small body men observe actual results experience adoption day railway transportation alike men railroads fourth explicit approval congress consideration interstate commerce commission increase freight rates meet additional expenditures railroads may rendered necessary adoption day offset administrative readjustments economies facts disclosed justify increase fifth amendment existing federal statute provides mediation conciliation arbitration controversies present adding provision case methods accommodation provided fail full public investigation merits every dispute shall instituted completed strike lockout may lawfully attempted sixth lodgment hands executive power case military necessity take control portions rolling stock railways country may required military use operate military purposes authority draft military service united states train crews administrative officials circumstances require safe efficient use second third recommendations congress immediately acted established day legal basis work wages train service authorized appointment commission observe report upon practical results deeming measures immediately needed postponed action upon suggestions opportunity offered deliberate consideration fourth recommendation deem necessary renew power interstate commerce commission grant increase rates ground referred indisputably clear recommendation congress regard matter might seem draw question scope commission authority inclination justice reason doubt either increase interstate commerce commission membership facilities performing manifold duties provision full public investigation assessment industrial disputes grant executive power control operate railways necessary time war like public earnestly renew necessity legislation manifest pressing entrusted us responsibility duty serving safeguarding matters would find hard believe excuse failure act upon grave matters unnecessary postponement action upon interstate commerce commission find practically impossible present membership organization perform great functions promptly thoroughly unlikely may presently found advisable add duties still others equally heavy exacting must first perfected administrative instrument country consent remain longer exposed profound industrial disturbances lack additional means arbitration conciliation congress easily promptly supply agree must doubt power executive make immediate uninterrupted use railroads concentration military forces nation wherever needed whenever needed program regulation prevention administrative efficiency argues case mere statement regard one items increase efficiency interstate commerce commission house representatives already acted action needs concurrence senate would hesitate recommend dare say congress would hesitate act upon suggestion make man occupation obliged law continue employment desired leave pass law forbade prevented individual workman leave work receiving approval society would adopt new principle jurisprudence take granted prepared introduce proposal operation railways country shall stopped interrupted concerted action organized bodies men public investigation shall instituted shall make whole question issue plain judgment opinion nation propose principle based upon different principle concerted action powerful bodies men shall permitted stop industrial processes nation rate nation shall opportunity acquaint merits case employe employer time form opinion upon impartial statement merits opportunity consider practicable means conciliation arbitration see nothing proposition justifiable safeguarding society necessary processes life nothing arbitrary unjust unless arbitrarily unjustly done done full scrupulous regard interests liberties concerned well permanent interests society three matters capital importance await action senate already acted upon house representatives bill seeks extend greater freedom combination engaged promoting foreign commerce country thought legal terms laws monopoly bill amending present organic law porto rico bill proposing thorough systematic regulation expenditure money elections commonly called corrupt practices act need labor advice measures enacted law urgency lies manifest circumstances render adoption time opportune necessary even delay would seriously jeopard interests country government immediate passage bill regulate expenditure money elections may seem less necessary immediate enactment measures refer least two years elapse another election federal offices filled would greatly relieve public mind important matter dealt circumstances dangers public morals present method obtaining spending campaign funds stand clear recent observation methods expenditure frankly studied light present experience delay would serious disadvantage postponing action another election hand special object connected might thought mind urged action taken facts guidance without suspicion partisan purpose shall argue length desirability giving freer hand matter combined concerted effort shall undertake essential enterprise building export trade enterprise presently immediately assume indeed already assumed magnitude unprecedented experience necessary instrumentalities prosecution deemed doubtful whether could created upon adequate scale present laws clear away legal obstacles create basis undoubted law give freedom without permitting unregulated license thing must done opportunity may escape us hesitate delay argument proposed amendments organic law porto rico brief conclusive present laws governing island regulating rights privileges people created expectations extended privilege satisfied uneasiness among people island even suspicious doubt regard intentions concerning adoption pending measure would happily remove doubt wish essential particular ought last session congress bill passed senate provides promotion vocational industrial education vital importance whole country concerns matter long neglected upon thorough industrial preparation country critical years economic development immediately ahead us large measure depends may urge early favorable consideration house representatives early enactment law contains plans affect interests parts country sure legislation pending congress whose passage country awaits thoughtful approval greater impatience see great admirable thing set way done matters already advanced stage conference two houses necessary speak practicable basis agreement concerning doubt found action taken upon inasmuch gentlemen probably last occasion shall address congress hope permit say genuine pleasure satisfaction many measures constructive policy enriched legislative annals country privilege labor company take liberty congratulating upon completion record rare serviceableness distinction
fulfil time duty lay upon constitution communicate time time information state union recommend consideration legislative measure may judge necessary expedient shall continue practice hope acceptable leave report several head executive department elaboration detail need public service confine matter general public policy seem necessary feasible deal present session congress realize limitation time necessarily act session shall make suggestion possible thing leave undone last session time complete seem necessary interest public first place seem imperatively necessary early possible consideration action accord remaining measure program settlement regulation occasion recommend close last session view public danger disclose unaccommodated difficulty exist still unhappily continue exist railroad country locomotive engineer conductor trainman recommend first immediate provision enlargement administrative reorganization interstate commerce commission along line embody bill recently pass house representative await action senate order commission may enable deal many great various duty devolve upon promptness thoroughness present constitution mean action practically impossible second establishment day legal basis alike work wage employment railway employes actually engage work operate train interstate transportation third authorization appointment president small body men observe actual result experience adoption day railway transportation alike men railroad fourth explicit approval congress consideration interstate commerce commission increase freight rate meet additional expenditure railroad may render necessary adoption day offset administrative readjustment economy fact disclose justify increase fifth amendment exist federal statute provide mediation conciliation arbitration controversy present add provision case method accommodation provide fail full public investigation merit every dispute shall institute complete strike lockout may lawfully attempt sixth lodgment hand executive power case military necessity take control portion roll stock railway country may require military use operate military purpose authority draft military service unite state train crew administrative official circumstance require safe efficient use second third recommendation congress immediately act establish day legal basis work wage train service authorize appointment commission observe report upon practical result deem measure immediately need postpone action upon suggestion opportunity offer deliberate consideration fourth recommendation deem necessary renew power interstate commerce commission grant increase rate grind refer indisputably clear recommendation congress regard matter might seem draw question scope commission authority inclination justice reason doubt either increase interstate commerce commission membership facility perform manifold duty provision full public investigation assessment industrial dispute grant executive power control operate railway necessary time war like public earnestly renew necessity legislation manifest pressing entrust u responsibility duty serve safeguard matter would find hard believe excuse failure act upon grave matter unnecessary postponement action upon interstate commerce commission find practically impossible present membership organization perform great function promptly thoroughly unlikely may presently find advisable add duty still others equally heavy exact must first perfect administrative instrument country consent remain long expose profound industrial disturbance lack additional mean arbitration conciliation congress easily promptly supply agree must doubt power executive make immediate uninterrupted use railroad concentration military force nation wherever need whenever need program regulation prevention administrative efficiency argue case mere statement regard one item increase efficiency interstate commerce commission house representative already act action need concurrence senate would hesitate recommend dare say congress would hesitate act upon suggestion make man occupation oblige law continue employment desire leave pas law forbade prevent individual workman leave work receive approval society would adopt new principle jurisprudence take grant prepared introduce proposal operation railway country shall stop interrupt concerted action organize body men public investigation shall institute shall make whole question issue plain judgment opinion nation propose principle base upon different principle concert action powerful body men shall permit stop industrial process nation rate nation shall opportunity acquaint merit case employe employer time form opinion upon impartial statement merit opportunity consider practicable mean conciliation arbitration see nothing proposition justifiable safeguard society necessary process life nothing arbitrary unjust unless arbitrarily unjustly do do full scrupulous regard interest liberty concern well permanent interest society three matter capital importance await action senate already act upon house representative bill seek extend great freedom combination engage promote foreign commerce country think legal term law monopoly bill amend present organic law porto rico bill propose thorough systematic regulation expenditure money election commonly call corrupt practice act need labor advice measure enact law urgency lie manifest circumstance render adoption time opportune necessary even delay would seriously jeopard interest country government immediate passage bill regulate expenditure money election may seem less necessary immediate enactment measure refer least two year elapse another election federal office fill would greatly relieve public mind important matter dealt circumstance danger public moral present method obtain spending campaign fund stand clear recent observation method expenditure frankly study light present experience delay would serious disadvantage postpone action another election hand special object connect might think mind urged action take fact guidance without suspicion partisan purpose shall argue length desirability give free hand matter combine concerted effort shall undertake essential enterprise building export trade enterprise presently immediately assume indeed already assume magnitude unprecedented experience necessary instrumentality prosecution deem doubtful whether could create upon adequate scale present law clear away legal obstacle create basis undoubted law give freedom without permit unregulated license thing must do opportunity may escape u hesitate delay argument propose amendment organic law porto rico brief conclusive present law govern island regulate right privilege people create expectation extend privilege satisfied uneasiness among people island even suspicious doubt regard intention concern adoption pending measure would happily remove doubt wish essential particular ought last session congress bill pass senate provide promotion vocational industrial education vital importance whole country concern matter long neglect upon thorough industrial preparation country critical year economic development immediately ahead u large measure depend may urge early favorable consideration house representative early enactment law contains plan affect interest part country sure legislation pending congress whose passage country await thoughtful approval great impatience see great admirable thing set way do matter already advanced stage conference two house necessary speak practicable basis agreement concern doubt find action take upon inasmuch gentleman probably last occasion shall address congress hope permit say genuine pleasure satisfaction many measure constructive policy enrich legislative annals country privilege labor company take liberty congratulate upon completion record rare serviceableness distinction