The stipulations of this agreement appear to me so reasonable and just and the object to be accomplished by its execution so eminently desir...
It is the right and the duty of the United States to assert and maintain such supervision and authority over any interoceanic canal across t...
If the protection of the United States is relied upon, the United States must exercise such control as will enable this country to protect i...
An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts...
If existing treaties between the United States and other nations or if the rights of sovereignty or property of other nations stand in the w...
No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly in...
The United States can not consent to the surrender of this control to any European power or to any combination of European powers.
It is hereby ordered that the tract of country in Washington Territory...be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement and ...
for its consideration with a view to ratification
describing the condition and resources of the island of Johanna
narrating the progress of the negotiation
R. B. HAYES
The object of the report and of the bill accompanying it is of such importance that I respectfully commend it to the prompt and earnest cons...
I herewith transmit a communication from the Attorney-General, with reference to the requisite appropriation for the current fiscal year for...
No efforts will be spared to prevent the invasion of said Territory, rumors spread by evil-disposed persons to the contrary notwithstanding.
In reply to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 3d instant, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to forward any facts ...
In reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 21st instant, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish all in...
He should, above all things, be a man of unimpeachable integrity.
