I have recently engaged in some collaboration with the Governor of California in respect to two questions involving the Federal Government and State government of California.

In order that we may have an exhaustive investigation with a view to final determination which I hope will be acceptable to all parties, I have consulted the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy as well as Mr. Meek, the…

The first step is the creation of a commission to supervise an exhaustive investigation of the engineering facts and to determine the policies which should be pursued in the long view development of the State, as to irrigation, flood…

The second question that I have discussed with the Governor is the disputed question of a bridge across San Francisco Bay.

I BEG of Your Excellency to accept my heartiest congratulations on this anniversary of the founding of the German Republic.

It is hereby ordered, under authority contained in Section 5 of the Act of February 8, 1887 (24 Stats. 388), that the trust period on the allotments of Indians on the Yankton Sioux Reservation, South Dakota, which expires during the…

Such positions of a professional, scientific, technical, or supervisory nature under the Naval Establishment in the Philippine Islands, as may be agreed upon by the Secretary of the Navy and the Civil Service Commission.

This order is jointly recommended by the Navy Department and the Civil Service Commission.

Officers to aid in important drafting work is hereby revoked.

Specialists in foreign relations, political, economic and financial, whose proposed compensation is $3,200 or more, and whose training and experience along the lines of their proposed duties meet the standard minimum qualifications set up…

The assembling of fifty thousand young men and boys from seventy different races and nationalities, in good fellowship without competition, and the self discipline which makes this possible are in themselves without precedent, and…