The necessity for these appropriations is so urgent and they have been already so long delayed that if the bill before me contained no perma...
Politics, as well as religion, has its superstitions.
I respectfully recommend that such action be taken by Congress as may be deemed appropriate with reference to a gift to the nation so precio...
He now appeals to Congress for relief, and the papers herewith exhibit a case that calls for Congressional action.
It is respectfully submitted to the House of Representatives, recommending speedy and favorable consideration.
It is spoken of by the members composing the late board as the most perfect and reliable machine in the world, embodying new mechanical prin...
In response to the resolution of the Senate of the 27th of February last, concerning the action had by the Executive with respect to the inv...
In response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 12th of February last, on the subject of negotiations concerning the im...
In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 29th of January, 1880, calling for information in relation to the awards of the mixed...
In answer to a resolution of the House of Representatives of March 2, 1880, requesting the Secretary of State to communicate to the House ce...
I transmit herewith a report, dated on the 9th instant, from the Secretary of State, with the accompanying papers, in answer to a resolution...
The stipulations of this agreement appear to me so reasonable and just and the object to be accomplished by its execution so eminently desir...
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...
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...
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...
The United States can not consent to the surrender of this control to any European power or to any combination of European powers.
No European power can intervene for such protection without adopting measures on this continent which the United States would deem wholly in...
An interoceanic canal across the American Isthmus will essentially change the geographical relations between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts...