This order, which is recommended by the commission and concurred in by the department, is designed to diminish the number of excepted positions and improve the service, and shall be effective February 1, 1932.

The first and fundamental obligation of a government is towards its own nationals.

Mrs. Florence C. Brock, widow of Thomas S. Brock who served for over 30 years in and under the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture, may be appointed to the position of junior clerk, Bureau of Public Roads…

I have requested General [Charles G.] Dawes to accept the position of President of the new Reconstruction Corporation.

I shall welcome any further reduction which can be made and still preserve the proper and just functioning of the Federal Government.

The reduction in governmental expenditures and the stability of Government finance is the most fundamental step that we can take to this end.

The developments of the past week should give great assurances to the country.

Our people must realize that Government cannot continue to live in a depression upon the scale that was possible in times of great prosperity.

But our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order--national, State, and local.

Our first duty as a nation is to put our governmental house in order-national, State, and local.

We are giving this question our undivided attention.

In the present and what I believe is the final campaign against the depression, I have laid a program before Congress, and I trust we will secure its early adoption.

Such action would result in the elimination of many expensive agencies and overlap resulting in very great economies.

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.

The Veterans' Administration was a new type of organization in the Government.

I have signed the act authorizing the foreign debt postponement for one year.

We cannot suspend the functioning of the Federal Government at such a time.

I have received requests from Federal employees in the District that they should be given two periods of holidays so as to cover the Saturday following Christmas Day, and from New Year's Day until January 4.