The only provision we are making is that it will produce employment during the next 6 months, and that is the sole object of relief legislation--not to further schemes that look to a general upbuilding of the Nation beyond our taxing policy.

The Treasury Department is making every effort to prevent the misuse of arms.

Executive order of April 17, 1926, creating public water reserve No. 107, is hereby modified so as to exclude the Territory of Alaska from the operation thereof.

No passport shall be granted or issued to, or verified for, any persons other than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States.

I don't think any further tax reduction will come for some time.

I furthermore notify all persons to particularly observe that by said act certain tracts or portions of the Great Reservation of the Sioux Nation in the Territory of Dakota, as described by metes and bounds, are set apart as separate and permanent reservations for the Indians receiving rations and annuities at the respective agencies therein named.

Such aid should be, as it always has been, suggested by some exceptional conditions.

A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to disclose any pensionable disability.

If we are to adhere to the rule that in order to entitle the widow of a soldier to a pension the death of her husband must be in some way related to his military service, there can be no doubt that upon its merits this case was properly disposed of by the Pension Bureau.

I earnestly commend the situation and the wrongs of the Indians occupying the reservation named to the early attention of the Congress.

it be vacated whenever the interest of the Indians shall require it, upon notice to that effect to the Secretary of War.

This bill, should it become a law, will operate greatly to the injury of the new States.

In advance of the acquirement of individual rights to these lands sound policy dictates that every effort should be resorted to by the two Governments to settle their respective claims.