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Fishing, in fact, is the one human occupation that is clear of political implications.

We cannot allow the Navy to fall behind in its morale and recreational facilities.

This refuge shall be known as the Bird Island Wild Life Refuge.

Mrs. Helen Hall York may be appointed a clerk in the classified service of the Treasury Department without compliance with the requirements of the civil service rules.

I would hope that this can be done after the arrival in the region by automobile rather than by train and in short stages.

I have been very much urged by the National Park Service to visit the Rocky Mountain parks: Glacier, Yellowstone, Estes, and the other parks.

They are certainly beautiful enough to accommodate presidents, and if it can be arranged I propose to make a trip beginning at the northern ones and working down the Rocky Mountain section through the different parks, during the month of…

In view of the provisions of Executive Order No. 5290, of March 5, 1930, establishing a system of monthly accounts and returns for all consular officers, the words 'quarter' or 'quarterly,' wherever they occur in the Consular Regulations…

When our delegation went to London they went as Americans and not as members of a political party, and there is no partisanship whatever in this treaty.

The ratification of the London treaty is a partisan matter or not.

It certainly is not--broad foreign policies of the Nation and not partisan policies.

The Tariff Commission has estimated the cost of the plan to the Treasury, if put into operation and on the basis of present exports, at about $280,000,000 per annum.

The plan in the present bill presents an additional objection in that the export subsidies proposed vary with different agricultural products and thus are widely different to different farmers.

I have your letter of inquiry as to whether I can see any reason to change the views which I expressed on April 20th last upon the so-called debenture plan introduced by the Senate into the Tariff Bill. I do not.

The purpose of it was to enable the Postmaster General to contract in such a fashion as to encourage passenger traffic and to bridge over from solely a postal aviation to passenger-carrying airplanes.

I have also a letter here from Mr. Sloan, who is the chairman of the Electrical Utilities Committee that we set up last December on construction work.

Secretary Adams has worked out the changes in commands of the fleet in certain of the bureaus in the Navy.