White House Statement About Appropriations for United States Participation in the General Disarmament Conference and the International Monetary and Economic Conference.
THE PRESIDENT has today sent to Congress an estimate for an appropriation of $150,000 for continuation of the work of the Arms Conference and a message recommending an appropriation of $150,000 for expenses of participation of the United States in the International Economic Conference.
The purpose of these recommendations is to enable the Arms Conference to be carried forward, together with preparatory work of the Economic Conference, but more particularly to provide President-elect Roosevelt with necessary resources to carry forward these activities.
Note: The message transmitting the supplemental appropriations request to pay expenses of U.S. participation in the General Disarmament Conference and accompanying papers are printed in Senate Document 159 (72d Cong., 2d sess.).
The message transmitting the appropriations request to pay expenses of U.S. participation in the International Monetary and Economic Conference and accompanying papers are printed in House Document 517 (72d Cong., 2d sess.).
Herbert Hoover, White House Statement About Appropriations for United States Participation in the General Disarmament Conference and the International Monetary and Economic Conference. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/207939