It recommends that further and more effective efforts be made to enforce the laws.

We are faced with a national emergency.

I cannot, however, allow a false issue to be placed before the country.

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.

I regret that the Government should be absorbed upon such questions as the action of the Power Commission in employment or nonemployment of two subordinate officials at a time when the condition of the country requires every constructive energy.

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.

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 thereon I concur.

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.

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 department on regular official accounting forms as a claim.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Less than two million represent new items.