Woodrow Wilson: “We cannot afford to put up any longer with such legislation as we may happen upon.”

The said United States Fuel Administration is hereby authorized to procure information in reference to the business of coal and coke producers and distributors in the manner provided for in Sections 6 and 9 of the Act of Congress approved…

It waits with acquiescence, in the first place, for laws which will effectively prohibit and prevent such interlocking of the personnel of the directorates of great corporations—banks and railroads, industrial, commercial and public…

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