It has had mature consideration by the Department of Interior and they have provided a reasonable solution for it which I hope will be adopted.

Of course, there are quite a good many other places that have got to be advertised.

I have recommended, I think in all my messages, that the building of the dam at Boulder Canyon be undertaken.

I do not think that ought to stand in the way of a possible solution.

This question has been before the House and Senate for a number of years.

I want the dam built for the purpose of flood control and for the purpose of giving Southern California a better domestic water supply.

I notice that the press dispatches still refer to this as the $325,000,000 bill.

A good deal of the power I judge would be used to pump the water over the hill to Southern California and some method ought to be devised that will meet the objections of those that do not wish the United States Government to go into the…

I expected to have an opportunity to confer with some members of the committee, but apparently they hurried the conference to an end and filed their report without giving me any opportunity to see what they were doing or to indicate…

That is the main trouble with this bill—too many interests, too many people want to ride on it, until it became loaded up with a great many objectionable features.

If it is a meritorious project, it ought to go through on its own steam, and not be hitched on to something else.

I am thinking of going out to the circus grounds this afternoon at the invitation of Mr. [John] Ringling.

I have no information relative to proposed legislation about loans on securities.

I don't know of any particular analysis that General Jadwin has made of the flood control bill that went through the House.

The method of appointment of Federal officers is clearly defined by Article II, sections 1 and 2, of the Constitution of the United States.

I can not approve the principle of authorizing an appropriation for national defense unless the sums appropriated are to be expended under the immediate direction and supervision of those charged with the defense plans of the Nation.

The Secretary of War should continue to make the rules and regulations for these activities as he has done in the past, and this important function should not be delegated.

I hope that none of the members of the Congress will be misled by any rumors of that kind.