Gratifying progress has been made and conversations are continuing.

That depends entirely on the weather. If the sun shines we will go to the Rapidan.

It is also fair to the Board and the employees that this should be done.

It is my understanding that there is no charge of misfeasance, but in any event I have requested the Attorney General to study the Comptroller's report and to determine if there has been any violation of the law.

There are no violations of the law.

The United States never enters into an entente or alliance with anyone.

The Comptroller's report on matters connected with the Shipping Board relates to transactions mostly several years ago and all of them prior to this administration.

Kenmore, like Mount Vernon, should become another National shrine of the gracious domestic life of the many-sided George Washington.

AS YOU near the shores of the United States I send to you a most cordial welcome not only in my own name but on behalf of my fellow countrymen as well.

Under authority of the act of Congress approved June 4, 1897 (30 Stat. 34-36), and on the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture, it is hereby ordered that the tracts of land, in Alaska, lying within the following described…

The transfer above mentioned shall be effective from and including October 1st, 1929.

I told you before, I think, on several occasions that the general lines of reorganization of the administrative side are to centralize the administrative authority in one place, so that the Department of Justice covers all questions of…

This is all I have this morning.

I am issuing an Executive order [No. 5200] today to transfer the Division of Cooperative Marketing from the Department to the Farm Board, as a matter of facilitating the Board's work.

It is expected that we will be able to make definite recommendations to Congress on its assembly in December.

Mr. John McNab, of San Francisco, has accepted the joint request of the Attorney General, Secretary Mellon, Mr. Wickersham, and myself, to study and formulate, in cooperation with those Departments and the Law Enforcement Commission, the…

I am in hopes that Congress may in the meantime appoint the joint committee which I recommended on June 6th.

I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, under the authority conferred upon me by paragraph (e) of Section 13 of Agricultural Marketing Act approved June 15, 1929, entitled 'An Act To establish a Federal Farm Board to…