I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 14th ultimo, requesting a copy of 'any report of an actual instrumental survey of a line for a ship railroad across the Isthmus of…

I transmit herewith a communication of the 19th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.

The matter is presented for the favorable consideration of Congress.

The subject is recommended to the early attention and action of Congress.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 17th instant from the Secretary of the Interior.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 15th instant from the Secretary of the Interior.

This is an important subject, and is commended to the early attention of Congress.

It is hereby ordered,That the Department of Agriculture, the Government Printing Office, and all other Government offices in the District of Columbia be closed on Tuesday, December 1, 1885, the day of the funeral of the late Thomas A…

In the exercise of the power vested in the President by the Constitution.

the Executive Mansion and the several Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed on the day of the funeral and be draped in mourning for the period of thirty days;

the usual and appropriate military and naval honors be rendered, and that on all the legations and consulates of the United States in foreign countries the national flag shall be displayed at half-mast on the reception of this order,

EXECUTIVE ORDER 254 is published for the information and guidance of all concerned.

the usual emblems of mourning be adopted for thirty days.

If successfully accomplished, it will secure a large decrease in the annual interest payment of the nation, and I earnestly recommend, if the bill before me shall fail, that another measure for this purpose be adopted before the present…

The imperative necessity for prompt action and the pressure of public duties in this closing week of my term of office compel me to refrain from any attempt to make a full and satisfactory presentation of the objections to the bill.

I can not but regard the fifth section of the bill as a step in the direction of the destruction of the national banking system.

I have the honor to inform the Senate that Hon. John Sherman, Senator elect from the State of Ohio, has resigned the position of Secretary of the Treasury, and that said resignation has been accepted to take effect at the close of the…

I have the honor to inform the Senate that Hon. Benjamin Harrison, Senator elect from the State of Indiana, has resigned his office as a member of the Commission for the Improvement of the Mississippi River, and the same has been accepted…