Herbert Hoover: “If we could have all the energy that is now devoted to creating new committees and conferences devoted to that purpose…”

There is another phase of the bill as passed which is disheartening.

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

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.

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