Well, it is close to that.

There have been great accomplishments in the finances of the National Government, a large reduction in the national debt, considerable reductions in taxes.

Well, that is a matter to be taken up in the future and on which at the present time I would express absolutely no opinion.

I told him I would take it under consideration and expressed the hope that I might be able to attend.

I was very much interested this morning to have a visit from a delegation of the National Woman's Party.

They are engaged in working for the Lucretia Mott amendment to the Federal Constitution providing a larger equality as I understand it between women and men than they think now exists.

I think that hereafter if it is agreeable to the press we will call this con-ference at 11:30 instead of quarter to twelve, and that will give me a little more opportunity to get home for lunch.

I should like to have the newspapermen and the photographers come out.

I am having a little party at the Lodge on the afternoon of the 4th of July, partly so far as I am concerned in the celebration of that national birthday and personally in celebration of my own birthday.

It had seemed to me that the Department of the Interior, which is the department that has always had charge of our territorial and disconnected possessions like Alaska might be the logical place to put the administration of our insular…

I don't know about that. I don't want to make any comment about that.

I have all the time advised the Philippine people to show their capacity for self-government by a careful administration of the fundamental law of the Islands, which is the Jones Law, the Organic Law we call it, and apparently they are…