Calvin Coolidge: “We have the high cost of government to diminish, and we are diminishing it.”

Miss Virginia Ladd may be appointed to an appropriate clerical position in the classified service without regard to the provisions of the civil service rules.

Mr. James W. Girard may be reinstated as Logging Engineer, $3800 per annum, in the Forest Service, without regard to the time limit on eligibility for reinstatement fixed by the rules.

Nothing special took place at the Cabinet this morning.

So far as the Commission may deem practicable, such appointments shall be made from the registers of eligibles.