At no recurrence of the season which the devout habit of a religious people has made the occasion for giving thanks to Almighty God and humbly invoking His continued favor has the material prosperity enjoyed by our whole country been more…

Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 27th day of November instant, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer;

It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the Sioux Indian Reservation in Dakota Territory created by Executive orders dated January 11, March 16, and May 20, 1875, and November 28, 1876, be, and the same hereby is, restored to the…

In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 28th June, 1879, requesting a copy of any correspondence which may have passed between the Department of State and the Republic of Mexico in regard to the proposed Austin-Topolovampo Railroad…

The offices thus provided for are essential to the faithful execution of the laws.

All appropriations to provide for the performance of these indispensable duties expire to-day.

To establish the principle of this bill is to make a radical, dangerous, and unconstitutional change in the character of our institutions.

To deprive the National Government of these officers would be as disastrous to society as to abolish the sheriffs, constables, and police officers in the several States.

Either to allow necessary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of the appropriations required to keep them in operation, or to approve legislation which in official communications to Congress he has declared…

Officers with corresponding powers and duties are found in every State of the Union and in every country which has a jurisprudence which is worthy of the name.

I earnestly urge upon your attention the necessity of making immediate appropriations for the maintenance of the service of the marshals and deputy marshals for the fiscal year which commences to-morrow.

It is impossible for me to look without grave concern upon a state of things which will leave the public service thus unprovided for and the public interests thus unprotected.

The criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the United States is very extensive.

The law entitles these officers to be paid.

Believing that it was not the intention of Congress to require such repayment, the bill is returned without my signature.

The fact that these laws are deemed objectionable by a majority of both Houses of Congress is urged as a sufficient warrant for this legislation.

The object of these sections of the Revised Statutes is plain.

It is not sought by the bill before me to repeal the election laws.