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

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.

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.

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.

Each increase in the facilities for communication between our countries brings ever more to our peoples the realization of being brought closer together and so overcomes more and more the barriers of geographical distance and fosters that interchange of ideas and commerce between us which makes the relationship of Governments and peoples mutually beneficial.

Wyoming

For the Government to finance by bond issues deprives industry and agriculture of just that much capital for its own use and for employment.

In order that important operations of the Board, now in prospect, may be carried through promptly additional funds are required at this time.

It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4624, dated April 1, 1927, withdrawing, among other lands, the public lands in T. 48 N., Rs. 4 and 5 E., New Mexico principal meridian, Colorado, pending resurvey, be, and the same is hereby, revoked as to said townships.

It is a very considerable program.

I have nothing of special moment today.

The test of the value of such relief is the ability to pay wages between now and the end of the fiscal year, and I therefore urge that this estimate be given early consideration.

In my annual message to the Congress, I requested that an appropriation of from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000 be granted for this purpose, and this estimate is in furtherance of that request.

Mrs. Pearl McIntosh may be appointed to a suitable position in the General Accounting Office without regard to the requirements of the civil service rules.

Programs now authorized will carry it to still larger figures in future years.

I think it may interest you to have the final budget allocations for the independent establishments.

I had expected to be able to issue the Colorado River proclamation today, but that will not be possible, as the Attorney General has not completed checking up on the details required so that will go over to Monday.

The total amount of currency issued is $5,065 million.