We have succeeded in maintaining confidence and courage.

All slumps are the inexorable consequences of the destructive forces of booms.

By cooperation between Government officials and the entire community, business, railways, public utilities, agriculture, labor, the press, our financial institutions and public authorities, we have undertaken to stabilize economic forces…

Our immediate problem, however, has been the necessity to mitigate the effect of the recent crash, and to get back onto the road of prosperity as quickly as possible.

I recommend that, as an act of grace and without reference to the question of the legal liability of the United States, an appropriation of $1,500 United States currency be authorized to effect settlement of this claim.

Respectfully, HERBERT HOOVER The White House, April. 30, 1930.

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a draft of proposed legislation to reappropriate $3,500,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation 'Military and naval insurance, Veterans' Bureau, 1930, and…

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State in relation to a claim presented by the Government of Denmark for the payment of compensation to the owners of the Danish motor ship Indien for damages sustained as a result of a…

The details of this proposed legislation, the necessity therefor, and the reason for its submission at this time are set forth in the letter of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, transmitted herewith, with whose comments and…

We have expedited the public works program or authorized program by some 12 million over and above the annual expenditure.

Altogether the Government is meeting the situation one way or another by increasing its program for construction by somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 to 125 million.

There must be extension of federal prisons with more adequate parole system and other modern treatment of prisoners.

There must be relief afforded from congestion in the courts.

This is well indicated by the fact that less than one third of federal prisoners are due to prohibition.

There should be a transfer of the functions of detection and prosecution of prohibition cases from the Treasury Department to the Department of Justice, and thus an ending of divided responsibility and effort.

The District of Columbia is without an adequate prohibition enforcement law.

The overcrowding of the prisons themselves is inhumane and accentuates criminal tendencies.

The conclusion reached by the Acting Secretary of State has my approval and I recommend that the Congress authorize an appropriation of $152.35 to be paid to the Polish Government.