Woodrow Wilson: “By virtue of the authority vested in me, I hereby establish the following order in the Canal Zone”

The authorization granted to the United States Fuel Administration and the United States Fuel Administrator by paragraph 5 of the executive order of July 3, 1918, was and is terminated as of January 1st, 1920, and the said powers were and…

Such a policy is antagonistic to the fundamental principle of equal and exact justice to all.

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.

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