Herbert Hoover: “It is no more in the interest of veterans than in the interest of the taxpayer.”

Any study of many of these public works provisions will indicate plainly their pork-barrel characteristics.

The reductions must be real and positive.

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.

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