THE LOVE and respect of parents and children are the root of a very large part of all the happiness in the world.

We will, however, in order that every community may know exactly where it stands, give you a list of all the buildings and exactly where we have got to as to securing the sites, plans, contracts, and everything.

The other item I have today is that Mr. Calvin Chesnut of Baltimore has been selected for the District Court to succeed Judge [Morris A.] Soper.

We haven't had time to get the detail of it, but we will, sometime next week, be able to give you a list of all the buildings which have been authorized and what their status is on the road to construction.

Further than that I haven't anything today.

I have two or three inquiries from the press and some from associations as to the progress of the building program of the Treasury.

France is to be congratulated on the enterprise and vision which have assembled in Paris so much of interest from such distant parts of the world.

From a historic as well as from a modern point of view the exhibits will have great educational value.

It affords me special pleasure on the occasion of the opening of the International Colonial and Overseas Exposition to extend to Your Excellency my cordial greetings and to assure you of the best wishes of the United States for the success…

No. We will discuss the whole of the work of the Department--to a large extent public works.

I have appointed Mr. Wayland W. Magee of Bennington, Nebraska as the farmer member of the Federal Reserve Board.