It would be difficult to conceive of any modern activity which contributes more to the necessities and conveniences of life than transportation.

Several hundred thousands of them are on the payrolls of the United States Government.

Nothing is more destructive of the progress of the Nation than government extravagance.

Attention is again directed to the surplus problem of agriculture by the present cotton situation.

The important place which agriculture holds in the economic and social life of the Nation can not be overestimated.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described public lands in the State of Arizona be withdrawn from settlement, entry, sale or other disposition, and set apart for use in connection with the San Carlos Indian Irrigation Project

Whether that would interfere with his coming over, I don't know.

The duties are difficult.

He ought not to stay in the Philippines as long as that.

I understand he is making a good recovery.

Now we have been expecting that General Wood would come back this winter.

The Vice-Governor, I think he is called Vice-Governor, was over here last winter.

He has recently been ill.

I thought perhaps he would be back last winter, but he didn't seem to be able to get away.

It has been expected that he would come home for a visit some time this season.

He hasn't been back for five years.

I speak of that as an indication of the devotion that General Wood has shown towards his duties and his intense loyalty in their discharge.

A person accustomed to our temperate climate ought to have an opportunity to get out of a climate as warm and trying as that of the Philippines for a considerable length of time, much oftener than five years.