Mrs. Ida Strong may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Agriculture without regard to the civil service rules.

it is hereby ordered pursuant to public resolution No. 29, of February 14, 1920 (41 Stat. 434), as amended January 21, and December 28, 1922 (42 Stat. 358, 1067), that the above described lands, if otherwise subject to disposition, subject to valid rights, shall be opened only to entry under the homestead or desert land laws by qualified ex-service men of the War with Germany, under the terms and conditions of such resolutions and regulations issued thereunder for a period of 91 days beginning with the official filing of the plat of resurvey, and thereafter to appropriation under any public land law applicable thereto by the general public.

That combination is inhibited by the last Radio Act, and anything in that matter must go to Congress.

I have not proposed to announce any of those until they are sent to the Senate.

There may be an exception or two but in the main it applies to all the appointments.

Subsequent to the date hereof and prior to the date of restoration to general disposition as herein provided, no right may be acquired to the released lands by settlement in advance of entry, or otherwise, except strictly in accordance herewith.

it is hereby ordered that the boundaries of the Crook National Forest be modified by excluding therefrom the following described lands in the State of Arizona

PERMIT ME to offer to Your Majesty on this birthday anniversary cordial felicitations of the Government and people of the United States and my own personal greetings.

He shall appoint and fix salaries of those persons employed by the Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States whose positions and salaries are not specified in the annual budgets of the two Colonial Councils.

IN PURSUANCE of the resolution of Congress approved February 28, 1929, authorizing the President to appoint a commission, consisting of five members, to be known as the Yellowstone National Park Boundary Commission, whose duty it shall be to inspect the areas involved in the proposed adjustment of the southeast, south, and southwest boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park.

If any reduction is to be applied to taxes, it is my own belief that it should be applied in that direction.

A very great honor and courtesy have been shown by France to the United States in the arrangements they have made for the return of the body of a most distinguished American citizen--Ambassador Herrick.

I have asked the Navy to make arrangements for a reception fitting to Ambassador Herrick's great public service and the feeling that I know our people have entertained toward him.

It is not concerned with the making of agreements for disarmament or the limitation of arms but with the preparation of technical methods and information that may lay the foundations for agreement when such conferences for actual agreement might be called.

I have no right to pass any judgment on that question, the facts of which have not been thoroughly sifted by any public tribunal, but I might say that this is entirely a case of local authorities, and was not participated in in any shape by the Federal authorities, right or wrong.

No, some months ago and are still in force.

I have asked the Navy to make arrangements for a reception fitting to Ambassador Herrick's great public service and the feeling that I know our people have entertained towards him.

I do not believe that we have a sufficient distinction at the present time between earned and unearned incomes, to use terms that are rather loose--not as precise as they ought to be--but in any event on a general understanding of what we mean by those qualifications.