Where holders are complying with the law, they need have no anxiety as to retrospective action, but some 34,000 permits for oil exploration by drilling have been issued since the leasing law was passed in President Wilson's administration.

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.

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

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

It is obvious that no large proportion of 20,000 oil wells are being drilled on lands under these permits.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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