I notice that the press dispatches still refer to this as the $325,000,000 bill.
I expected to have an opportunity to confer with some members of the committee, but apparently they hurried the conference to an end and fil...
I want the dam built for the purpose of flood control and for the purpose of giving Southern California a better domestic water supply.
This question has been before the House and Senate for a number of years.
I do not think that ought to stand in the way of a possible solution.
I have recommended, I think in all my messages, that the building of the dam at Boulder Canyon be undertaken.
It has had mature consideration by the Department of Interior and they have provided a reasonable solution for it which I hope will be adopt...
Incident to that would be some power development.
I very much hope that some solution may be found at the present session of the Congress.
It doesn't indicate that much has been done to meet my views.
I haven't had a chance to talk with Colonel Starling very much since he came back from his visit to Swannanoa [North Carolina].
The report, I think of the conference committee on the flood bill, is in today's issue of the Congressional Record.
If it is a meritorious project, it ought to go through on its own steam, and not be hitched on to something else.
I am thinking of going out to the circus grounds this afternoon at the invitation of Mr. [John] Ringling.
I have no information relative to proposed legislation about loans on securities.
I don't know of any particular analysis that General Jadwin has made of the flood control bill that went through the House.
That is the main trouble with this bill—too many interests, too many people want to ride on it, until it became loaded up with a great many ...
The Secretary of War should continue to make the rules and regulations for these activities as he has done in the past, and this important f...
