Herbert Hoover: “Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the Public Treasury.”

This reduction should be carried out not only by broad general cuts in armaments but by increasing the comparative power of defense through decreases in the power of the attack.

Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.

No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.

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