Herbert Hoover

All of said lands are within the limits of Huron National Forest, having been reserved for forest purposes by proclamations of February 11, 1909, and July 30, 1928, which remain in full force and effect as to said lands.

It is urgent that the uncertainties in the business world which have been added to by the long-extended debate of the measure should be ended.

I do not assume the rate structure in this or any other tariff bill is perfect, but I am convinced that the disposal of the whole question is urgent.

Platform promises must not be empty gestures.

If, however, by any chance the flexible provisions now made should prove insufficient for effective action, I shall ask for further authority for the Commission.

No tariff bill has ever been enacted or ever will be enacted under the present system that will be perfect.

The principle of a protective tariff for the benefit of labor, industry, and the farmer is established in the bill by the requirement that the Commission shall adjust the rates so as to cover the differences in cost of production at home…

The new flexible provision established the responsibility for revisions upon a reorganized Tariff Commission, composed of members equal of both parties as a definite rate making body.

I accordingly recommended an increase in agricultural protection.

Your presence is but another evidence of that sincere and uninterrupted friendship which has always linked our countries together so that it can truly be described as traditional.

Firm believers in democracy, they are successfully upholding within their borders the principles of self-government.

Your people are conquering the wilderness and are bringing to the markets of the world the fruits of their labor.

It gives me the greatest possible pleasure to welcome Your Excellency on this occasion and to express to you my profound appreciation of the signal honor which you, through your visit, are conferring upon the Government and people of the…

In their relations with the other nations of the world they are animated by a desire to maintain amity and, through loyal efforts, to further the cause of peace.

In other respects also, sir, your nation is viewed with sympathetic admiration by my countrymen.

One need not be a prophet to say that the future of Brazil is one of unlimited possibilities.

On the merits or demerits of these alternatives as to this very small part of the fleet of about 1,125,000 tons, our naval advisers are sharply divided.

I have no other questions except one on the District appropriations, and I anticipate that the committees will be able to find some solution without stopping the works of the District.

There is not one scintilla of agreement or obligation of any character outside the treaty itself.

I have not done so yet. It has not come in yet, but I will when it arrives.

The United States scraps three battleships, the British five, and Japan one, and postpones the enormous expenditure for renewals under the Washington Treaty until after 1936.

Now, the aircraft carriers, and the destroyers, and submarine programs of the treaty are fair, and they have not been subject to any particular criticism.

We accomplish that without building a single ship.

The real issue in the treaty is whether we shall stop competitive naval building with all the destruction and the dangers to international good will that the continuation of that course implies; whether we shall spend an enormous sum in…

The program of the treaty does represent a decrease in destroyer and submarine strength.