March 05, 1931
SECRETARY of Commerce Lamont is in negotiation with the larger oil companies in respect to imports in the interest of both the producers and consumers.
HERBERT HOOVER
Note: The message was in response to telegrams from Governors William H. Murray of Oklahoma, Ross D. Sterling of Texas, Harry H. Woodring of Kansas, and Arthur Seligman of New Mexico, who were urging a national conference to limit the imports of oil.
Herbert Hoover, Message About Limitation of Oil Imports. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207442