I have today had great pleasure in approving the act providing for advance planning of construction and Federal public works in preparation for future unemployment relief.

It is not a cure for business depression but will afford better organization for relief in future depressions.

I feel it is just that I should take this occasion to make known two men who have had a large part in development of these ideas and their ultimate consummation--Mr. Edward Eyre Hunt of the Department of Commerce, and Mr. Otto Mallory, of…

It is not a cure for depression, but it is a better organization of relief for future depressions.

And that is all that I have today.

I shall place the organization set up under the act, under the Secretary of Commerce.

Mrs. Nixon S. Plummer may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Federal Trade Commission without regard to the civil service rules.

My dear Mr. Senator: As to our conversation this morning, I am glad to confirm at once that the proposed additional drought relief measure was suggested for the purpose of real aid to the weakened credit situation in the drought area and…

It is hereby ordered that lot 5 of sec. 24, T. 11 S., R. 19 E., and lot 6 of sec. 33, T. 8 S., R. 20 E., containing 160 acres, and tract 20 in sec. 24, T. 9 S., R. 25 E., containing 68.93 acres, Salt Lake meridian, Utah, be eliminated from…

I am advised by the Secretary of War that no record has been found of the enrollment, muster-in, or service in Company G, Fourth Regiment Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, during the war with Spain, of any man named Homer N. Horine.

It does not, therefore, appear that he was engaged in the service upon which this legislation is based.

This enactment would bring Homer N. Horine within the provisions of the pension laws conferring benefits upon honorably discharged members of the military forces who served 90 days or more during the War with Spain.