Herbert Hoover: “It is the right and duty of Congress to investigate and formulate legislation.”

So much of the order of June 8, 1926, creating Reservoir-Site Reserve No. 17, as affects the lands hereinafter described is hereby revoked

It was unfortunate also that the provision for agricultural relief through the Reconstruction Corporation was omitted.

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 arms of the world should be reduced by nearly one-third.