Herbert Hoover

I have to announce that Mr. Castle will be the new Under Sectary of State.

And it is hereby ordered, pursuant to Public Resolution 85, approved June 12, 1930 (46 Stat. 580), that, subject to valid rights, the unreserved public lands in said township, if otherwise subject to disposition, shall be opened, under the…

It is hereby ordered that Executive Order No. 4964, dated September 17, 1928, which withdrew the public lands in T. 15 S., R. 84 W., sixth principal meridian, Colorado, pending a resurvey of said township, be, and the same is hereby…

The Citizens' Military Training Camps have through ten years proved themselves important agencies of physical and moral health in the individual and of civic welfare in the Nation.

I SEND TO Your Majesty my sincere felicitations on the occasion of your birthday.

I commend the Citizens' Camps to all fathers and mothers and to young men of suitable age in the hope and belief that the camps will show themselves as useful in the future as they have been in the past.

The willingness of young men to devote a month to this training program for better citizenship is proof of good-will in the generation on which will presently devolve the maintenance of our social and political institutions.

May the ties of friendship and good understanding existing between Egypt and the United States continue to increase and prosper.

We need a transformation in the Department of Agriculture to have a number of tropical plants developed in Porto Rico which look very promising.

The people of Porto Rico have made magnificent progress in self-government and the establishment of democratic institutions.

Porto Rico, with the assistance of the Government, is able to carry on.

Reports from American consuls assigned to 21 countries whose annual quotas total 148,466 of the total quota of 153,714 indicate that only 10,277 visas were issued during the 5-month period against a possible 74,233 allowable under law

I was a great deal struck with the many capable men there, especially the judges, and the chief justice.

The only important provision of the law useful in the circumstances is that one requiring the exclusion of those who are liable to become public charges

The Department of Agriculture has been looking for tropical plants to supplement our agricultural products.

The work of Governor Roosevelt has uncovered many lines of development.

To protect American workingmen from further competition for positions by new alien immigration during the existing conditions of employment

They have been extending their markets and have been making some shipments to England of bananas, with success.

We have reduced expenses by doing away with the Governor at St. Johns.

The government is ably conducted by Porto Rican-born citizens and there are today only three or four important officials upon the island who were not born there.

I have not given any great thought to that question.

I suppose we will spend $5 or $600,000 here in that direction.

The purpose of the transfer of the administration from the naval to a civil department is to see if we can develop some form of industry or agriculture which will relieve us of the present costs and liabilities in support of the population…

Consular officials, charged with the duty of issuing visas to intending immigrants, have carefully examined each applicant

Viewed from every point except remote naval contingencies, it was unfortunate that we ever acquired these islands.