The object of the bill is to destroy any control whatever by the United States over the Congressional elections.
It is confidently believed that no sound argument can be made in support of the constitutionality of national regulation of Senatorial elect...
I respectfully refer to that message for a statement of my views on the principle maintained in debate by the advocates of this bill.
The supervision of the elections will be reduced to a mere inspection, without authority on the part of the supervisors to do any act whatev...
The framers of the Constitution regarded the election of members of Congress in every State and in every district as in a very important sen...
The United States election laws are not necessary, an ample reply is furnished by the history of their origin and of their results.
If the bill contained no other provisions, no objection to its approval would be made.
This money is needed to keep in operation the essential functions of all the great departments of the Government--legislative, executive, an...
The constitutional authority to regulate the Congressional elections which belongs to the Government of the United States, ought to be enfor...
The objections to the practice of tacking general legislation to appropriation bills, especially when the object is to deprive a coordinate ...
The true meaning and effect of the proposed legislation are plain.
I am directed by the President to say that the several Departments of the Government will be closed on Friday, the 30th instant, in remembra...
In response to a resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of the Interior and ac...
In response to a resolution of the Senate of the 7th instant, requesting information in reference to an alleged occupation of a portion of t...
The elections should be free from all forcible interference, and, as far as practicable, from all apprehensions of such interference.
The true rule as to the employment of military force at the elections is not doubtful.
No soldiers, either of the Union or of the State militia, should be present at the polls to take the place or to perform the duties of the o...
Holding, as I do, the opinion that any military interference whatever at the polls is contrary to the spirit of our institutions and would t...
