Woodrow Wilson: “I am conscious of a sort of truancy in being absent from my duties in Washington.”

In my opinion the legislation proposed is not in the public interest and is objectionable.

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.

Clearly, this is no time for the erection here of high trade barriers.

I do not believe that they should be accorded indirectly.