The suggestions that have been hitherto made do not carry anything in the nature of military guarantees, and anything short of military guarantees are of no interest to the governments negotiating in London.

This Conference is not over with by any manner or means, and I am very confident that constructive results of some order will come out of it.

This order is recommended by the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

The character of the consultative pact which they have suggested, that is, from outside sources, does not interest any of the governments sitting in that Conference.

H. Charles Spruks may be appointed to a classified position in the Department of State without compliance with the civil service rules.

There seems to be a sort of illusion that we have demands made upon us for pacts of this character, and we have none.

it is hereby ordered that the public lands in T. 62 N., R. 2. E. of the fourth principal meridian, Minnesota, be and the same are hereby withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, entry, and all forms of appropriation, pending a resurvey…

The Haitian Commission was here for preliminary report.

And that is all that I have on this occasion.

I may say that they are very extensive and embrace very large sections of the judiciary as well as the laity of lawyers.

The original setup of the Court was presumably, although not necessarily, based on a distribution amongst the different circuits, and at least this selection has the interesting point to it that it does meet the geographic question a…