The laboring man may well insist, with manly courage and as a right, upon the same recognition from those who make our laws as is accorded to any other citizen.

I am constrained to recommend to Congress legislation upon this serious and pressing subject.

Under our form of government the value of labor as an element of national prosperity should be distinctly recognized.

The establishment by Federal authority of such a bureau would be a just and sensible recognition of the value of labor and of its right to be represented in the departments of the Government.

The present condition of the relations between labor and capital is far from satisfactory.

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State on the manufacture of milk sugar in Switzerland.

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the subject.

But any person who has for three years last preceding served as a clerk in the office of the President of the United States may be transferred or appointed to any place in the classified service without examination.

Any person in the classified departmental service may be transferred and appointed to any other place therein upon the following conditions:

The hardship has in some cases been remedied by the action of the courts.

It is sufficient that I should call the earnest attention of Congress to the circumstance that the statute makes no provision whatever for the somewhat numerous class of Chinese persons who, retaining their Chinese subjection in some…

This anomalous feature of the act should be reformed as speedily as possible...

The supposition should not be indulged that Congress...intended to make its protection depend upon the performance of conditions which it was physically impossible to perform.

The matter is commended to the favorable consideration of Congress.

To the House of Representatives: In response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of March, relative to the employment of substitutes in the Department of State, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State…

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior and the accompanying report, submitted by the governor of Alaska in compliance with section 5 of the act of May 17, 1884, entitled 'An act providing a civil government for…

I transmit herewith a copy of the reply of the Attorney-General to the letter of the Secretary of State of December 15, 1885.

This cause is commended to the liberal care and jealous protection of the Congress.