I saw some suggestion that the Western States might resent conservation measures on oil.

The Government must cease to alienate its oil lands if we are to have conservation.

They know there is a limit to oil supplies, and that the time will come when the Nation will need this oil much more than it is needed now.

The Secretary of War has already, through the Corps Area Commander, offered to take any steps necessary to give the full support of the Federal Government to the local authorities in service to the people suffering from that flood.

I have the highest esteem for Judge Burke, and I appreciate his very long and devoted service to the country.

No one is more anxious for conservation of our oil resources than the Western States themselves.

In fact, there are no half measures in oil conservation.

Admiral Moffett has been continued as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics.

There will be no diplomatic appointments made until after Mr. Stimson's arrival in Washington.

In other words, there will be complete conservation of Government oil in this administration.

There will be no leases or disposal of Government oil lands, no matter what category they may lie in, of Government holdings or Government controls, except those which may be mandatory by Congress.

The purpose and scope of the Law Enforcement Commission, as stated in my inaugural address, is to critically consider the entire Federal machinery of justice, the redistribution of its functions, the simplification of its procedure, the…

Our understanding is that the revolt has quite collapsed in Vera Cruz.

The whole constitutes one problem of better and more effective organization and enforcement.

There are some 820,000 people on the Federal payroll.

Nothing of very great importance was taken up, mostly matters of pure routine.

It is traditional for the principal directing heads of the Government whose appointments are at the pleasure of the President, both at home and in foreign service, to tender their resignations with the advent of a new President.