I am only a coordinate branch of this Government and the least important of those branches.
You have six locks now completed, and where those six locks operate, the success of the system of slack water has been d...
I recognize the gentlemen who applaud, as coming from the Columbia River district.
One of the things that I think we ought to do is not to decry the past.
They have not come to a definite conclusion as to the policy that ought to be adopted, but they have come to the conclus...
I think that a wise platform to take.
Then when the time comes that political exigency shall prevent the appropriation of sufficient amounts from the current ...
You may insist that a policy ought to be adopted, and you have insisted, and I do not doubt that you have—indeed I know ...
I don't know that I have any right to be here to talk about waterways, unless it makes a man an expert on the subject to...
You are getting, as the boys and girls used to say in 'finding the button'—you are getting warm.
I am still a consistent advocate of that theory.
I venture to say that in your whole experience you have never met men of a higher standard of character, of a higher dev...
You have done it wisely, first, because when you want a thing done it is just as well to get close to the men who are to...
This Government was among the foremost in the great work of uplifting the uncivilized regions of Africa.
Mindful of the advantages to accrue to our artisans and producers in competition with their Continental rivals, I renew ...
The relations of the United States with all foreign governments have continued upon the normal basis of amity and good u...
The establishment of an International Prize Court is an eminently satisfactory solution.
Negotiations for an international conference to consider and reach an arrangement providing for the preservation and pro...
