This tariff law is like all other tariff legislation, whether framed primarily upon a protective or a revenue basis.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by law the tract of land hereinafter described, to be known as the Cerro Tigre Ordnance Depot, situated in the Canal Zone, is hereby set apart and assigned to the uses and purposes of a military…

Without a workable flexible provision we would require even more frequent congressional tariff revision than during the past.

Certainly no President, with his other duties, can pretend to make that exhaustive determination of the complex facts which surround each of those 3,300 items.

Thereby the means are established for objective and judicial review of these rates upon principles laid down by the Congress, free from pressures inherent in legislative action.

I SHALL approve the tariff bill.

I believe that the flexible provisions can within reasonable time remedy inequalities.

All of said lands are within the limits of Huron National Forest, having been reserved for forest purposes by proclamations of February 11, 1909, and July 30, 1928, which remain in full force and effect as to said lands.

If, however, by any chance the flexible provisions now made should prove insufficient for effective action, I shall ask for further authority for the Commission.

I accordingly recommended an increase in agricultural protection.

I do not assume the rate structure in this or any other tariff bill is perfect, but I am convinced that the disposal of the whole question is urgent.

Platform promises must not be empty gestures.

No tariff bill has ever been enacted or ever will be enacted under the present system that will be perfect.

The new flexible provision established the responsibility for revisions upon a reorganized Tariff Commission, composed of members equal of both parties as a definite rate making body.

The principle of a protective tariff for the benefit of labor, industry, and the farmer is established in the bill by the requirement that the Commission shall adjust the rates so as to cover the differences in cost of production at home…

In their relations with the other nations of the world they are animated by a desire to maintain amity and, through loyal efforts, to further the cause of peace.

One need not be a prophet to say that the future of Brazil is one of unlimited possibilities.

Your presence is but another evidence of that sincere and uninterrupted friendship which has always linked our countries together so that it can truly be described as traditional.