Woodrow Wilson: “Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee.”

The imports of wheat have come mainly from Canada and Argentina and have not competed with the domestic crop.

Very little reflection would lead any one to conclude that the measure would not furnish in any substantial degree the relief sought by the producers of most of the staple commodities which it covers.

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

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