Woodrow Wilson: “My dream is that as the years go on and the world knows more and more of America it will also drink at these fountains…”

In my opinion the legislation proposed is not in the public interest and is objectionable.

Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.

an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol, in the District of Columbia, on the fourth day of March next, at twelve o'clock noon

I think, therefore, that the bill should not become law and that the tract should be made a Federal bird reservation for the protection of the birds which now frequent the lands.