Woodrow Wilson: “We deemed ourselves rank democrats, whereas we were in fact only progressive Englishmen.”

public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at twelve o'clock on the fourth day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive.

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

Actual relief can come only from the adoption of constructive measures of a broader scope, from the restoration of peace everywhere in the world.

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.