Submission at this time of these additional projects for specific authorization and appropriation will afford employment for many thousands of men engaged in the building trades and allied industries.

It is a pleasure both to address a great audience gathered to do honor to the pioneer women and to support my friend, the Secretary of War, who, to your and my misfortune, cannot yet leave his room from recent illness, from which happily…

Concerted effort will be made to place contracts for the building contemplated for this year as rapidly as possible.

Mr. Gannett has shown a high sense of public responsibility in the management of his newspapers.

There are a great many historical events which it is not only highly proper but desirable to commemorate in a suitable way, but the longer use of our coins for this purpose is unsuitable and unwise.

The matter is not perhaps one of large importance in itself, were it not for the fact of the great number of other similar proposals by the aggregate of which the principles of sound coinage are being jeopardized.

The growing practice of issuing commemorative coins, incidentally to be sold at a profit and provide funds for projects or celebrations, appears to me to run counter to this principle and by their multiplicity to have become a misuse of…

I am happy to extend cordial greetings to the Society of the Genesee on the occasion of its thirty-first annual dinner and to send my best wishes to your guest of honor Mr. Frank E. Gannett.

The publication of accurate, unbiased, worthwhile news is a public service; for our people rely for information of affairs upon the newspapers.

These coins do not serve for circulating medium which is the real function of coins.

I congratulate him upon his many achievements and wish your Society many more such pleasant gatherings.