Woodrow Wilson: “The thing had needed to be done for a long time, but nobody had ventured before to undertake it in systematic fashion.”

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.

I herewith call your attention to an agreement with Belgium made by the British and French Premiers and myself.

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.