Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1919 — HISTORY TO REPEAT [ARTICLE]

HISTORY TO REPEAT

Wilsoir Will Not Go to Capito! Next *..:nday. Repo, ten President Will Not Address Cengroan Till It Yields on Trusty. Washington. Noy. 28. — President Wilson will not go to the capito) when congress reconvenes Monday, to read his message. . Ills physical comlltloiA will not permit him to do so. But it is doubtful if he would go if he were physically able. Some of the president’s friends are predicting that he Ims made his lakt trip to the ns president, unless the senate compromises on, the position It has taken on the peace treaty. If this prediction, should prove true, history would again repeat Itself. When President Wilson decided to personally address congress he revived a custom established by George Washington, but obsolete since Washington’s time. Washington himself gave up appearing in person before congress toward the close of his second term, and for the same reason which, It is nojv predicted—with a reservation —President Wilson will give it up. John Quincy Adams in his memoirs relates that President Washington went to the senate wdth the draft of a treaty; that the senate “debated and proposed alterations,” so that when Washington left the senate chamber he said he would be “damned if he ever went there again.”