I earnestly urge upon your attention the necessity of making immediate appropriations for the maintenance of the service of the marshals and...
Either to allow necessary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of the appropriations required to keep them i...
Officers with corresponding powers and duties are found in every State of the Union and in every country which has a jurisprudence which is ...
The offices thus provided for are essential to the faithful execution of the laws.
The criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the United States is very extensive.
Believing that it was not the intention of Congress to require such repayment, the bill is returned without my signature.
I transmit herewith to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of that body of the 20th instant, callin...
The fact that these laws are deemed objectionable by a majority of both Houses of Congress is urged as a sufficient warrant for this legisla...
Unable to concur with Congress in that measure, on the 29th of May last I returned the bill to the House of Representatives, in which it ori...
It is not sought by the bill before me to repeal the election laws.
It contains, however, other provisions, to which I desire respectfully to ask your attention.
The object of these sections of the Revised Statutes is plain.
The States may employ both civil and military power at the elections, but by this bill even the civil authority to protect Congressional ele...
I can not consent to their absolute and entire repeal, and I can not approve legislation which seeks to prevent their enforcement.
I transmit herewith, in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of Stat...
I have given to this report such examination as satisfies me that I ought to lay the proceedings and conclusions of the board before Congres...
As I am without power, in the absence of legislation, to act upon the recommendations of the report further than by submitting the same to C...
The great body of the people of all parties want free and fair elections.
