"I notice that the press dispatches still refer to this as the $325,000,000 bill."
"The report, I think of the conference committee on the flood bill, is in today's issue of the Congressional Record."
"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 have recommended, I think in all my messages, that the building of the dam at Boulder Canyon be undertaken."
"I very much hope that some solution may be found at the present session of the Congress."
"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."
"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."
"I don't know of any particular analysis that General Jadwin has made of the flood control bill that went through the House."
"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..."