I am able to announce the acceptance of three men on the Farm Board.

I THANK YOU for your message and deeply appreciate the expressions of encouragement and support adopted by the Virginia Republican Convention.

The compact was originally, signed 5 years ago by the seven States subject to ratification by their legislatures.

I have one question asking if I am going to take a summer home in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the answer is that I am not.

The difficulties over the respective water rights of the different States have served to prevent development in a large way for nearly a quarter of a century.

As a matter of some background in connection with the budget for next year, the discussions of which have been going on, the circular sent out did not amplify the situation from the public point of view-purely an interdepartmental circular.

It is the final settlement of disputes that have extended over 25 years and which have estopped the development of the river.

The expenditures for the present fiscal year are estimated to be $3,926 million, and in addition to this expenditure at that rate, as most of the expenditure during the present fiscal year is more or less continuing, would bring the total…

I am in hopes that Arizona and California may compose their mutual problems which have hitherto prevented Arizona from joining in the compact.

It expedites the Boulder Canyon development because it clarifies the difficulties which have held up all development, and there is only one point still left open, and that is the relation of Arizona to the compact.

That is all I am able to deal with today.