It is evident that Congress intended nothing more by this clause than to express a decided opinion that Captain Meigs sh...
I feel it my duty to communicate to you that it has been found impracticable to conclude a contract for the transportati...
I therefore earnestly recommend that the act referred to be so modified as to empower the Postmaster-General to provide ...
They demand a higher rate of compensation, and unless power is given to the Postmaster-General to accede to this demand ...
The weight of these mails, averaging from 12 to 15 tons semi-monthly, renders it, in view of the climate and character o...
The Postmaster-General has offered the California mails to the several companies and shipowners engaged in the trade wit...
It should not be forgotten that, in consequence of the diversion of a large part of the letter mail to the overland rout...
By what authority have they inquired into the causes of removal from office, and this from the parties themselves remove...
This bill, which proposes to give him land at an almost nominal price out of the property of the Government, will go far...
This state of the facts raises the question whether Congress, under the Constitution, has the power to give away the pub...
The charges made against me in vague and general terms were of such a false and atrocious character that I did not enter...
By what authority have they undertaken to pry into our foreign relations for the purpose of assailing him on account of ...
If this were not the case, then by the purchase of a new territory from a foreign government out of the public Treasury ...
This bill will prove unequal and unjust in its operation, because from its nature it is confined to one class of our peo...
This bill will open one vast field for speculation.
Is it just, is it equal, that after they have accomplished all this by their labor new settlers should come in among the...
By what authority have the committee undertaken to investigate the course of the President in regard to the convention w...
In my former protest, therefore, I truly and emphatically declared that it was made for no reason personal to myself, bu...
