The resolution raises the question of the independence of the executive arm of the Government in respect of the appointment and removal of executive officials.

In any event, the objective of the Senate constitutes an attempt to dictate to an administrative agency upon the appointment of subordinates and an attempted invasion of the authority of the Executive.

The details of this estimate, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its submission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitted herewith, with whose comments and observations…

Any obligations incurred prior to the date of retirement or separation from the service for which expenditures from official funds have not been made, and all obligations incurred subsequent to such date, must be submitted to the…

Mrs. Mildred Barnes Mclnturff may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Commerce without reference to the provisions of the civil service rules.

Accounts and claims for services of this kind should therefore be submitted to the Secretary of State for adjudication and transmission to the General Accounting Office.

I have no doubt that when the details of the plan are known they will be subject to criticism, as any plan will be.

Someone has offered him two or three times the pay the Government can afford, and he has responsibilities to his family that I cannot deny.

Mr. John W. Martyn, executive assistant, Office of the Secretary of War, may be classified as administrative assistant and chief clerk in the War Department.

The Interstate Commerce Commission has no power to compel such consolidations.

The plan, of course, must be submitted to the Interstate Commerce Commission, who have the independent duty to determine if it meets with every requirement of public interest.

I recommend that the Congress enact the necessary legislation authorizing and empowering the Secretary of State to effect the modification of the boundary line as recommended by him.

Such notes and discussions are necessarily passing and tentative, and they represent that confidential relation of the President with Government officers which should be preserved.

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress supplemental estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year 1931.

Less than two million represent new items.

The Gridiron Club platform would also contain constructive planks—for instance, it would insist that there must be more humor, more satire, more within government.

I have endeavored to envisage what sort of government we would have, if our government was conducted so as to give full expression and weight to the matters which seem of interest on these Gridiron occasions.

Our official life would no doubt be confined to those things that furnish the raw material for news or entertainment, humor, satire, exposure, wit, eccentricities, combats, attacks, or fights and failures in government or politics.