There shall be four branches of the classified civil service, as follows: 1. The classified departmental service. 2. The classified customs service. 3. The classified postal service. 4. The classified railway mail service.

Amendments to General Rules II, III, IV, Departmental Rules V, VIII, Customs Rule III, and Postal Rules II, VI, are hereby made and promulgated as follows:

Transfers may be made from one classified post-office to another, from any classified post-office to the classified railway mail service, and from the classified railway mail service to any classified post-office.

I transmit herewith for the consideration of the Congress a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, recommending an appropriation for the relief of Japanese subjects injured and of the families of Japanese subjects…

Public feeling on the Pacific Coast excited in favor of it, and situation is critical.

I transmit with this, in paraphrase of the cipher, a copy of the said dispatch.

I now transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying correspondence, on that subject.

It is plain, therefore, that the bill herewith returned ought not to become a law unless it is proposed to duplicate the credit therein mentioned.

This bill directs the Postmaster-General to credit to the beneficiary therein named, who is the postmaster at Buena Vista, in the State of Colorado, the sum of $225, being post-office funds forwarded by him to the deposit office at Denver…

The above proposed amendment is hereby approved.

Any intermediary between the people and their Government or the least delegation of the care and protection the Government owes to the humblest citizen makes the boast of free institutions a glittering delusion.

Every worthy applicant should receive a pension based on just principles.

Departure from the lines there laid down is failure.

It is the people's cause.

Let us follow the way it points out; it will not mislead us.

The Government itself is under bond to the American people that in the exercise of its functions and powers it will deal with the body of our citizens in a manner scrupulously honest and fair and absolutely just.

The existing situation is injurious to the health of our entire body politic.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant.