Woodrow Wilson: “This is sovereignty:--to sit at the helm and steer, marking out such free courses for the stanch craft as wind and…”

A recommendation at this time that suitable legislative action should be taken may appear somewhat premature, but in view of the approaching termination of my administration I have brought this matter to your attention, hoping that…

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

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.

The soundness of the principle embodied in Section io seems generally to be admitted.