Proclamation 1870—Requesting an Extra Session of Congress on Agricultural Relief and Tariff Changes

Whereas public interests require that the Congress of the United States should be convened in extra session at twelve o'clock, noon, on the fifteenth day of April, 1929, to receive such communication as may be made by the Executive;

And Whereas legislation to effect further agricultural relief and legislation for limited changes of the tariff can not in justice to our farmers, our labor and our manufacturers be postponed;

Now, Therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare that an extraordinary occasion requires the Congress of the United States to convene in extra session at the Capitol in the City of Washington on the fifteenth day of April, 1929, at twelve o'clock, noon, of which all persons who shall at that time be entitled to act as members thereof are hereby required to take notice.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the United States.

Done at the City of Washington this seventh day of March, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States the One Hundred and Fifty-third.

HERBERT HOOVER

By the President:

FRANK B. KELLOGG

Secretary of State.