Woodrow Wilson: “The program was a great one, and it is a matter of deep satisfaction to think of the way in which it has been handled.”

The price of wheat is a world price; and it is a matter of little moment whether the Canadian wheat goes directly into the markets of the other countries of the world or indirectly through this country.

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.

One does not pay a compliment to the American farmer who attempts to alarm him by dangers from foreign competition.

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.