There is no truth in the statement that Mr. Hilles has been displaced in New York appointment matters.

I am not in a position yet to announce the name because we haven't been officially notified by the Canadian Government.

You can quote it. Give Secretary Heath credit for it.

But that is the limitation.

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

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

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.

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

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

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…

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

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…

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

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

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.

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 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.