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¶ The East Room of the White House shimmered and twinkled with bright uniforms, emblems, medals, pomade. Two thousand were present. When it was over, Mrs. Coolidge leaned on the arm of the President, said farewell to scores of the guests. Thus, with a state reception in honor of the Army & Navy, ended the social program of the Coolidge administration.
¶ Sausages, buckwheat cakes and maple syrup were served according to ritual at a White House breakfast attended by 14 functionaries of Congress — chaplains, librarians, doorkeepers and the like. Many were the quips, many the Presidential laughs. After the meal, the President could reflect that he had completed his quota of Congressional breakfasts.
¶ President Coolidge signed a bill granting an annual pension of $3,000 to Mrs. Thomas R. Marshall, relict of the late Vice President.
¶ Senator Simmons of North Carolina, and onetime ("ernstwhile") Senators Ernst of Kentucky and Lea of Tennessee, were appointed by the President to a commission for the erection in Nashville, Tenn., of a memorial to Presidents Jackson, Polk and Johnson.* The Commission will also include three Senators chosen by the president of the Senate, three U. S. Representatives chosen by the Speaker of the House, six prominent Tennesseeans. The government will appropriate $300,000 when an equal amount has been raised by private subscription.
¶ The President signed the Cooper-Hawes bill, providing that only States which permit convict-made goods to be sold in competition with commercial goods, can receive and sell convict-made goods from other states.
¶ Brigadier General Charles H. Bridges, veteran of France and the Philippines, was appointed by President Coolidge to be the Adjutant General of the U. S. Army, succeeding the late Major-General Lutz Wahl.
¶ President Coolidge heard his support of commercial aviation praised by retired Major Lester D. Gardner, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. "You harmonized differences of opinion," said Major Gardner, "and replaced confusion with orderly discussion through the agency of the Aircraft Board under the chairmanship of Dwight Whitney Morrow."
¶ In Memorial Continental Hall, President Coolidge addressed the semi-annual business meeting of the government, de scribed and praised the work of the Bureau of the Budget.