Woodrow Wilson: “By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven”

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

We have been vigorously building up a great merchant marine and providing for improvement of marketing in foreign countries by the passage of an export trade law.

The neutrality of Belgium was guaranteed by the Treaty of London of 1839.