Woodrow Wilson: “The master of any vessel from a foreign port, with one or more Chinese persons on board, stopping at a port in the Canal…”

I regret that I am not able to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the House Joint Resolution.

For many months there has been a demand that war agencies should be abolished and that there should be less Government interference with business.

I do not believe that they should be accorded indirectly.

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.