Excerpts of the President's News Conference
02/28/1929
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
That didn't seem to be practical to me.
The Senate has a way of reaching a vote when it wants to and I have no doubt that that will be the result on the cruiser...
This order is recommended by the Treasury Department and the Civil Service Commission.
I haven't seen the Capper resolution relative to giving the President authority to put an embargo on the sale of arms.