The subject is an old one and now that economy absolutely must be the first order in government it is an appropriate time for Congress to take up the question and bring it to conclusion.

Leaders of both Houses have assured me that Congress will devote itself to the economic emergency program which I have proposed for the amelioration of agricultural, unemployment, and credit situations.

I am transmitting herewith and I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress a report on the subject from the Secretary of State in which he requests that authorization be made for an appropriation to defray the expenses of sending an American delegation to Geneva for the purpose of representing the United States at the conference.

Hearings were held and after long consideration of the subject, the commission rendered to me a unanimous report which I now transmit for the consideration of the Congress.

In the recommendations that I have laid before Congress and in the organizations created in the last few months there is a very definite rounded program for turning the tide of deflation and starting the country on the road to recovery.

Authorizing him to approve an application filed by the Western Gas Co. pursuant to the provisions of section 28 of the act of Congress approved February 25, 1920 (41 Stat. 437), for right of way for a pipe line for transporting natural gas.

THE PRESIDENT suggested in his message to Congress on Muscle Shoals that the States of Alabama and Tennessee, being primarily concerned, should appoint representatives, together with representatives from agriculture and the War Department, to determine a method for handling the Muscle Shoals plants.

This order shall continue in full force and effect unless and until revoked by the President, or by an act of Congress.

Authority of the President to deal with this problem is limited as this action must be supported by the Congress.

The law will require action by Congress, but with this support I assume that Congress will act favorably.

This arrangement so far as we are concerned does not require an extra session of Congress.

It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4889 of May 26, 1928, withdrawing certain public lands in Minnesota for classification and in aid of legislation, be, and it is hereby, revoked as to such of the lands not reserved by the act of Congress approved July 10, 1930 (46 Stat. 1020).

The whole business situation would be greatly strengthened by the prompt completion of the necessary legislation of this session of Congress and thereby the unemployment problem would be lessened, the drought area indirectly benefited and the resources of self-help in the country strengthened.

I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the inclosed report from the Secretary of State to the end that legislation may be enacted to authorize the appropriation of $35,000, for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Conference on the Limitation of the Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs to be held at Geneva, Switzerland, on May 27, 1931.

I commend those suggestions to the attention of the Congress at an appropriate time.

I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the inclosed report from the Secretary of State to the end that legislation may be enacted to authorize an appropriation of $110,000 for the expenses of the sixteenth session of the International Geological Congress to beheld in the United States in 1932.

ON BEHALF OF the Congress of the United States it gives me great pleasure to hand you this gold medal for your conspicuous courage, sagacity, and perseverance on your polar flight of 1925, and transpolar flight of 1926.

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year 1932, to be immediately available, in the sum of $1,500,000 for beginning the construction of the first unit of the municipal center.