Message to the Congress Recommending an Appropriation for the Department of State.

To the Congress of the United States:

I commend to the favorable consideration of the Congress the inclosed report from the Secretary of State, to the end that legislation may be enacted to authorize an appropriation of not exceeding $44,446.05 for the payment of interest on funds represented by drafts drawn on the Secretary of State by the American Embassy in Petrograd and the American Embassy in Constantinople and transfers which the embassy at Constantinople undertook to make by cable communications to the Secretary of State between December 23, 1915, and April 21, 1917, in connection with the representation by the embassy of the interests of certain foreign governments and their nationals.

HERBERT HOOVER

The White House,

June 9, 1930.