Heroic effort was needed to substitute national loyalty for department and bureau loyalty.

I believe that the Federal Government to-day is the best-conducted big business in the world.

The National Government ought to be one great entity responsible for the happiness of 120,000,000 of people.

We have demonstrated that saving results from efficiency, and efficiency comes from saving.

The margin between prosperity and depression is always very small.

As a practical matter I wonder just what chance there would ever be to get any Senate to ratify a codification of any kind of laws.

There never has seemed to be any time that it was feasible to call a conference on it.

They might just as well hunt for a will-o-the-wisp.

The difficulty about that will be in ever securing approval of it by the Senate.

I suppose it will go to the Court of Claims to be decided whether the Commission has the right to make a retroactive finding.

It looked at one time, you will recall, as though there might be a very extended debate on the peace treaty, but all at once the Senate agreed and were able to take a vote on it.

The Senate has a way of reaching a vote when it wants to and I have no doubt that that will be the result on the cruiser bill.

It is never possible to make much of a determination in advance of what the action of the Senate will be relative to the time of securing a vote on any question that is pending there.

Mr. Arthur J. Dahn may be reinstated as clerk in the Railway Mail Service without regard to the time limit on reinstatement under the civil service rules.

It is hereby ordered that the SW¼ SE¼, Sec. 15, T. 40 S., R. 7 E., W.M., Oregon, containing 40 acres, be and it is hereby temporarily withdrawn from settlement, location, sale or entry, and reserved for use by the State of Oregon as a…

Since consular officers are responsible under the law for the proper classification of aliens either as immigrants or as non-immigrants and for the issue or refusal of visas to them, all matters concerning visas, with the exception of…

No passport shall be granted or issued to, or verified for, any persons other than those owing allegiance, whether citizens or not, to the United States.

On and after October 1, 1926, only those embassies and legations and other diplomatic missions of the United States specifically authorized to do so by the Department of State will issue passports, except in the absence of a duly…

No other person shall grant, issue, or verify passports.

Diplomatic visas will be granted by diplomatic missions only.

To the end that I may receive the advice and consent of the Senate to their ratification, I transmit herewith a convention between the United States and His Majesty the King of Great Britain, Ireland and the British Dominions beyond the…

The convention and protocol had my approval and were signed by the American minister at Ottawa by virtue of full powers issued to him by me.

I invite the attention of the Senate to the accompanying report by the Secretary of State on the subject.

I think the Senate understands the situation very well and that they want to ratify the treaty and are especially desirous of avoiding any action on the part of the Senate that could be interpreted either here or abroad as varying the…

It would be a very complete answer on our part to the criticism that our country is sometimes under, especially to any suggestion that we had any motives of aggression toward any other country.