Woodrow Wilson: “Laws can have no other life than that which is given them by the men who administer and the men who obey them.”

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.

In recommending to you that Congress take appropriate action with regard to this agreement, certain facts should be brought to your attention.

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