Herbert Hoover

There is one certainty in the future of a people of the resources, intelligence, and character of the people of the United States-that is prosperity.

It is true that these economic things are not the objective of life itself.

The ownership of homes, the improvement of residential conditions to our people, is the first anchor in social stability and social progress.

The great utilities, the railways, and the large manufacturers have responded courageously.

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 am convinced we have now passed the worst and with continued unity of effort we shall rapidly recover.

We have succeeded in maintaining confidence and courage.

The acceleration of construction programs has been successful beyond our hopes.

There has been no significant bank or industrial failure.

I have the honor to transmit herewith for the consideration of Congress a supplemental estimate of appropriation for the fiscal year 1931, in the sum of $250,000, to continue during the fiscal year 1931 the inquiry into the problem of the…

We have need to maintain every agency and every force that we have placed in motion until we are far along on the road to stable prosperity.

They involve the immediate fears of men and women for their daily bread, the well-being of their children, the security of their homes.

To the Senate: I transmit herewith a treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armament, signed at London on April 22, 1930, by the plenipotentiaries of the President of the United States of America, the President of the French…

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 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.

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…

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.