It almost seems to me as though the protection of the people and the property in the lower Mississippi that need protection has been somewhat lost sight of.

I should like very much to have a measure for helping the farmer in accordance with my various messages to the Congress.

It leaves the United States Government also to pay all the major costs of maintenance, which it has never done before.

It becomes a bestowal of favors on certain localities and naturally if one locality is to be favored, all the other localities in the United States think that they ought to come in under the same plan and have their floods taken care of.

This undertakes to have the United States go in and assume the entire burden.

Another dog has come in.

That is a dog that is very much attached to my wife and he is very disconsolate in the absence of his mistress.

You will notice I have a new addition to the conference.

But he has been willing to come over here.

I have several departments making a study of the Alien Property bill.

So you can see that the Alien Property bill has some merit in it.

I have not received their formal report on it.

I think that is the outstanding feature.

It would not be difficult to show that the present status of Porto Rico is far more liberal than any status of its entire history

There is no disposition in America, and certainly not on my part, to discourage any reasonable aspiration of the people of Porto Rico

The people of Porto Rico are citizens of the United States, with all the rights and privileges of other citizens of the United States

The great satisfaction in Porto Rico at the passage of this act is the best evidence of its liberality

The Department of Health and the Department of Education of Porto Rico are combining to make of the Porto Ricans of the future a different type physically and mentally from those we found in Porto Rico