Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 511.4Al/1364b.

H. Doc. No. 33, 63d Cong., 1st sess.

Message from the President to the Congress transmitting a communication from the Secretary of State. ²

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

In transmitting the accompanying report from the Secretary of State, I most strongly urge not only the immediate appropriation of the sum of $20,000 which is asked, the absolute necessity for which is so apparent, but also the enactment of the requisite anti-drug legislation to which this Government is pledged internationally.

It is a source of gratification to me personally, and it will always be, I am confident, a subject of gratification to the nation, that this Government, realizing the extent of the opium and allied evils, should have initiated the world-wide movement towards their abolition. At this vital period of the movement, to fail to take the few final steps necessary definitively and successfully to conclude the work would be unthinkable, and I therefore trust that there may be no delay in the enactment of the desired legislation, and the consequent mitigation if not suppression of the vice which has caused such world wide misery and degradation.

Woodrow Wilson.

The White House , April 21, 1913 .

2. Referred to the Committee on Appropriations.