Herbert Hoover

We should, by this act of willingness to join with others in limiting our arms, have dismissed from the mind of the world any notion that the United States entertains ideas of aggression, or imperial power, or exploitation of other nations.

I shall have the gratification of signing the naval treaty this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

It will mark a further long step toward lifting the burden of militarism from the backs of mankind and speed forward the march of world peace.

With the ratification by the other governments the treaty will translate an emotion deep in the hearts of millions of men and women into a practical fact of government and international relations.

The discussion today was directed to measures for reduction of expenditures below these estimates with view to meeting possible reduction of revenue arising from slack times.

The public works expenditure here given embraces rivers and harbor improvement, flood control, Boulder Dam, public buildings, public roads, etc.

What the amount may be cannot be determined until we have completed our investigation.

I am confident that we can make a very large cut in this 209 million of increase so as to protect us against a fall in revenues.

Including the estimated postal deficit the total budget estimates of expenditures for the present fiscal year are $4,203,254,457, as compared with actual expenditures for the last fiscal year of $3,994,152,487, or an increase of…

The Cabinet members and heads of independent agencies have undertaken a searching inquiry into every branch of the Government as to methods by which economies may be brought about for the present fiscal year without interfering in the…

Otherwise, real comparisons would be destroyed by the variations in Post Office operations.

I am confident that we will find measures for very considerable reductions of actual outlay below the amounts appropriated.

The increased Army expenditures are due to the aviation program and to rebuilding quarters.

The increased naval expenditure is due to the expanded aviation, the new cruiser construction, and the Capital ship replacement programs.

Also some comparisons of Federal expenditures include the Post Office outlays.

I have prepared the necessary Executive order in compliance with the authority under the act.

It is folly to think that because we are the richest Nation in the world we can out build all other countries.

In aggregate this inland waterway undertaking represents a larger project than even the Panama Canal.

It will require many years to complete its construction.

Schedule A, Subdivision VIII, paragraph 5, of positions excepted from examination under the civil service rules is hereby amended to except guidance and placement officers under clause (a), and by adding a new clause (l) following (k), to…

This time the Nation has realized that as a sound economic policy, the prudent expedition of construction could be to an important degree used as a balance wheel to maintain security of employment, to maintain consumption of goods, to thus…

We have hitherto regarded great business depressions with their inevitable train of unemployment and hardships as an inevitable fever which must run it course, and in former times if public works were undertaken in alleviation of…

To definitely organize so as to prevent the activity in public works from receding like other activities in depression, and to speed them up in anticipation of future needs so as to alleviate unemployment in such a time is a new experiment…

It takes time to plan public works, to legislate, to finance them, to assemble materials, to enter contracts so that the second half of the year promises even greater results--particularly is this true for our Federal appropriations and…

In all previous depressions, the volume of public works has diminished because the State and municipal governments, feeling the effects of such depression in taxes, in problems of finance, and in the general psychology of retrenchment…