It seems to me that we ought to get along without enlarging appropriations.

Certainly not next year.

I think the comment has already been made, but perhaps it won't do any harm if I reiterate that up to date this has been the most efficient Congress that we have had for a great many years.

But the responsibility for legislation is theirs.

I don't think any further tax reduction will come for some time.

Ultimately we should of course have further tax reduction, as the debt is reduced, as the business of the country expands and revenue increases and expenses decrease.

It has my approval.

Before the War it is my recollection that we spent $120,000,000.

If we could get consolidations through, it would solve the problem, to quite an extent, of rates.

It is an exhibition, I don't want to boast about our own country too much, but I think it is an exhibition of good faith on the part of this country.

I don't want to unduly restrict the reporting, but I think that would be often enough.

That was provided for by the legislature in the last session and all I did was to issue an executive order carrying out the terms of the legislation.

I should be very glad to consult General Mitchell about any subject that he is familiar with on which he can be helpful.

On July 16, 1925, the President signed an Executive Order, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to remit to the Board of Trustees of the China Foundation for the Promotion of Education and Culture, as the agent designated by the Chinese…

Now I think that is the real extent at the present time of the Chinese policy, based on those two things—carrying out the Washington Agreements on the one side and doing what we can to get China to protect foreign interests on the other…

NOW I don't think that is right.

I don't quite throw my communications to the conference into anything like finished style or anything that perhaps would naturally be associated with a Presidential utterance.

I expect to spend a considerable part of it trying to amuse the newspapermen.