Herbert Hoover: “Nothing of very great importance was taken up, mostly matters of pure routine.”

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.

That the validity of a passport . . . shall be limited to a period of two years.

It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.

It is not intended by this order to give any publicly owned lands a national-forest status which have hitherto not had such status, nor to remove any publicly owned lands from a national-forest status.