First-choice vote for reserve-bank cities, by cities-Continued.

RELIEF OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ABROAD.

MESSAGE

FROM THE

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,

RECOMMENDING

PASSAGE BY CONGRESS OF ACT MAKING APPROPRIATION FOR RELIEF OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, ETC.

AUGUST 4, 1914.-Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and ordered to be printed.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

After further consideration of the existing condition in Europe in so far as it is affecting citizens of the United States who are there without means, financial or otherwise, to return to their homes in this country, it seems incumbent upon the Government to take steps at once to provide adequate means by the chartering of vessels or otherwise of bringing Americans out of the disturbed region and conveying them to their homes in the United States. Moreover, in view of the difficulty of obtaining money upon letters of credit, with which most Americans abroad are supplied, it will be necessary to send agents abroad with funds which can be advanced on such evidences of credit, or used for the assistance of destitute citizens of the United States.

In these circumstances I recommend the immediate passage by the Congress of an act appropriating $2,500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be placed at the disposal of the President, for the relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens and for personal services, rent, and other expenses which may be incurred in the District of Columbia, or elsewhere, connected with, or growing out of, the existing disturbance in Europe. WOODROW WILSON.

THE WHITE HOUSE, August 4, 1914.

ACT NO. 2325 OF THE THIRD PHILIPPINE LEGISLATURE, ENTITLED "AN ACT AMENDING SECTION 13 OF ACT NO. 926, KNOWN AS "THE PUBLIC-LAND ACT,' BY SPECIFYING THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PUBLICATION OF THE NOTICES OF SALE OF LANDS SHALL BE MADE."

AUGUST 22, 1914.-Referred to the Committee on Insular Affairs and ordered to be printed with accompanying papers.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

I submit herewith act No. 2325 of the third Philippine Legislature, entitled "An act amending section thirteen of act numbered nine hundred and twenty-six, known as 'the public-land act,' by specifying the manner in which the publication of the notices of sale of lands shall be made."

I have approved the act and submit it in accordance with the provisions of section 13 of the act of Congress approved July 1, 1902, entitled "An act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes."

I also transmit herewith a letter of the Secretary of War explaining the scope of the act.

THE WHITE HOUSE, August 22, 1914.

WOODROW WILSON.