A good deal of the power I judge would be used to pump the water over the hill to Southern California and some method ought to be devised that will meet the objections of those that do not wish the United States Government to go into the…

I have recommended, I think in all my messages, that the building of the dam at Boulder Canyon be undertaken.

I haven't had a chance to talk with Colonel Starling very much since he came back from his visit to Swannanoa [North Carolina].

I very much hope that some solution may be found at the present session of the Congress.

I do not think that ought to stand in the way of a possible solution.

I notice that the press dispatches still refer to this as the $325,000,000 bill.

I want the dam built for the purpose of flood control and for the purpose of giving Southern California a better domestic water supply.

Incident to that would be some power development.

The report, I think of the conference committee on the flood bill, is in today's issue of the Congressional Record.

I expected to have an opportunity to confer with some members of the committee, but apparently they hurried the conference to an end and filed their report without giving me any opportunity to see what they were doing or to indicate…

I don't know of any particular analysis that General Jadwin has made of the flood control bill that went through the House.

If it is a meritorious project, it ought to go through on its own steam, and not be hitched on to something else.

I have no information relative to proposed legislation about loans on securities.

That is the main trouble with this bill—too many interests, too many people want to ride on it, until it became loaded up with a great many objectionable features.

I am thinking of going out to the circus grounds this afternoon at the invitation of Mr. [John] Ringling.

The Secretary of War should continue to make the rules and regulations for these activities as he has done in the past, and this important function should not be delegated.

I can not approve the principle of authorizing an appropriation for national defense unless the sums appropriated are to be expended under the immediate direction and supervision of those charged with the defense plans of the Nation.

The method of appointment of Federal officers is clearly defined by Article II, sections 1 and 2, of the Constitution of the United States.

I hope that none of the members of the Congress will be misled by any rumors of that kind.

I hope they may pass some reasonable farm legislation, but I am afraid that the present bill will not meet what I held to be the requirements.

I don't think the Senate understood it, what its implications were, or what is behind it.

I don't think that in passing a bill of this kind the opportunity should be seized on to put the Government in a position where it would have to endow them with very large damages.

I have talked with some of the leaders of the House relative to the flood control bill.

That seems to be due in large part to the attitude of those that are interested in the lumber companies.

I don't know of any proposal that has been made, certainly since I have been President, and I doubt if any was ever made, of such an extortionate nature as that provided for in the bill passed by the Senate.