All the evidences indicate that the worst effects of the crash upon employment will have been passed during the next 60 days with the amelioration of seasonal unemployment, the gaining strength of other forces, and the continued…

Measures taken to ameliorate interest rates have resulted in continuous decrease since December, and money is available at lower rates for business and commercial purposes.

The Departments of Commerce and Labor are engaged in the usual monthly survey of business and unemployment and especially of the results obtained from the measures which have been in progress since the last of November, to reduce…

Available money for mortgage purposes of home building and agriculture has lagged behind other forms of credit.

The low point of business and employment was the latter part of December and early January.

But a decrease in demands of policyholders for loans on the insurance companies and the action recently taken by the Federal Reserve System should result in increased supplies of credit, especially for residential building, which in turn…

If the board finds it necessary to have further funds it should be possible to make provision for them in ample time, as Congress will no doubt be in session by the time they are required.

Unemployment amounting to distress is in the main concentrated in 12 States.

The total construction work for 1930 seems assured to be larger than even 1929.

This Executive order shall become effective on July 1, 1930.

New Bern, North Carolina, and Manteo, North Carolina, are hereby abolished as customs ports of entry in Customs Collection District No. 15 (North Carolina)

Executive Order No. 5208, dated October 12, 1929, withdrawing the public lands in T. 19 S., R. 56 E., Mt. Diablo meridian, Nevada, pending a resurvey in the township, is hereby revoked as to sections 25, 26, 35, and 36, said township.

I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the inclosed report from the Acting Secretary of State, to the end that legislation may be enacted to authorize an appropriation of the sum of $13,000 for the expenses of…

I recommend that the Congress enact the necessary legislation authorizing it.

I want to take this occasion to thank you for your many courtesies during the last year.

We do not always agree on things, but people that have a sense of sportsmanship in the world always agree to disagree and let it go at that.

I haven't anything this morning.

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation amounting to $7,000,000 for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 1930, to remain available until June 30, 1931…