Before the merits or demerits of the subject can be gone into I must first determine the legal questions involved as to whether or not the plan and method have not already been conclusively determined by the Flood Control Act and the…

Schedule A, Subdivision I, paragraph 6, of the Civil Service Rules, is hereby amended by striking out $480 and inserting $540 in lieu thereof.

I have just learned that on May 29th you will celebrate your one hundredth birthday.

I also want you to know of my appreciation of your interest in my campaign last Fall.

The Commission will determine that. I cannot forecast how they will do their work.

I would like to have you get it accurately.

This refuge shall be known as the Fort Keogh Bird Refuge.

I think that is all I have got on my mind.

The Tacna-Arica dispute has been settled.

Horace Paul Bestor, who has been duly appointed a member of the Federal Farm Loan Board, is hereby designated Farm Loan Commissioner of said Board until otherwise directed.

Mrs. Juliette V. Harring may be appointed to an appropriate position in the Department of Commerce without regard to the civil service rules.