Herbert Hoover: “The Interstate Commerce Commission has no power to compel such consolidations.”

I propose that the treaty number and tonnage of battleships shall be reduced by one-third.

Our Army, including the National Guard and all other reserves, has already been reduced much below the European standard 'police component.'

I am glad to see the adoption by the Senate and House of the principle of generous relief to unemployment.

While these features in the Wagner and the Garner bills are not in the form and are not as well safeguarded as they should be, they are in line with major objectives I have been advocating.