It was impossible that Congress could have had such an intention, and therefore, according to my construction of the clause in question, it ...
If they could withdraw an officer from the command of the President and select him for the performance of an executive duty, they might upon...
It is now discovered, however, that it will require half a million more for the completion of the Washington Aqueduct.
Officers might then be found, instead of performing their appropriate duties, besieging the halls of Congress for the purpose of obtaining s...
To this appropriation, for a wise and beneficial object, I have not the least objection.
It is evident that Congress intended nothing more by this clause than to express a decided opinion that Captain Meigs should be continued in...
I feel it my duty to communicate to you that it has been found impracticable to conclude a contract for the transportation of the mails betw...
I therefore earnestly recommend that the act referred to be so modified as to empower the Postmaster-General to provide for carrying the Cal...
They demand a higher rate of compensation, and unless power is given to the Postmaster-General to accede to this demand I am well satisfied ...
The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character of the road, manifest...
The Postmaster-General has offered the California mails to the several companies and shipowners engaged in the trade with the Pacific via th...
It should not be forgotten that, in consequence of the diversion of a large part of the letter mail to the overland route, the postages deri...
By what authority have they inquired into the causes of removal from office, and this from the parties themselves removed, with a view to pr...
This bill, which proposes to give him land at an almost nominal price out of the property of the Government, will go far to demoralize the p...
This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the public lands either to ...
The charges made against me in vague and general terms were of such a false and atrocious character that I did not entertain a moment's appr...
By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of the instructions giv...
If this were not the case, then by the purchase of a new territory from a foreign government out of the public Treasury Congress could enlar...
