Herbert Hoover: “MAY I TAKE this occasion of the sixty-sixth anniversary of Your Majesty's birth to reiterate the cordial good wishes of…”

You have always been a public spirited citizen, working for the best interests of your state and of the nation and I know that whether in diplomatic work or at home, you will continue to render valuable service.

One never makes a statement like that.

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

So much of the order of June 8, 1926, creating Reservoir-Site Reserve No. 17, as affects the lands hereinafter described is hereby revoked