Such notes and discussions are necessarily passing and tentative, and they represent that confidential relation of the President with Government officers which should be preserved.

THE PRESIDENT. There seems to be a lot of news elsewhere--a great plenty--no famine of that character at all in the city, so I have got nothing that I can add on this occasion.

Nearly eighty million dollars of the expenditures under these appropriations were included in the estimates of expenditures during this year contained in the Budget for the fiscal year 1932.

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

The result of which is to impose this sum upon the regular budget and in effect increase emergency relief by that amount.

Less than two million represent new items.

Executive Order No. 5349 of May 12, 1930, reserving and setting apart, for use of the Department of Agriculture as a refuge and breeding ground for wild animals and birds, Bird or Hat Island, located about three miles north of Carrington…

About ten million become necessary due to the change of wording of the emergency relief bill in respect to highways.

Ninety-one million five hundred twenty-six thousand seven hundred forty dollars.

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.

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.

Indeed these are times of great apprehensions and unrest in the world at large.