Calvin Coolidge

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

It has had mature consideration by the Department of Interior and they have provided a reasonable solution for it which I hope will be adopted.

This question has been before the House and Senate for a number of years.

Incident to that would be some power development.

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

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

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

It doesn't indicate that much has been done to meet my views.

Of course, there are quite a good many other places that have got to be advertised.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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