"There is always danger that the Congress will be too liberal in the matter of appropriations."
"Of course, according to my best judgment, there should be added to the sums I have already mentioned $65,000,000 that has been put into the tax bill, which is in excess of what I believe tax reduction..."
"It doubled the appropriation that I proposed for the Shipping Board and I think added $6,000,000 or $8,000,000 to the Army bill, and it is true that if it goes on at that rate there won't be any surpl..."
"I have understood that there was something of a propaganda under way against any Navy building program."
"But I think if it is understood that this is a plan toward which the Navy is to work in the future as funds become available, and that so far as the cruisers are concerned it is to quite a large exten..."
"No, I have given you the wrong number."
"I am not, of course, an expert at all on what is the type of ship that we need most, but I am advised by the Navy that it is in the matter of cruisers that we are most deficient."
"There are some letters being received here at my office against the building program and some communications are being received in favor of it."
"My position, as I suggested the other day, was fully set out in my message, wherein I stated that I thought the property that was to be benefited ought to bear some portion of the expense."
"I should expect that under any commission that might be set up or any agency that might be used for the prosecution of this work, that it would be done in a business way."
"The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would then legislate."
"I think it has already been announced that I appointed Colonel Latrobe to be my Aide."