Herbert Hoover: “This order is issued upon the recommendation of the Secretary of Agriculture.”

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.

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

These expenditures cannot be recovered; they must be met by the taxpayer now or in the future.

The reductions must be real and positive.