At no recurrence of the season which the devout habit of a religious people has made the occasion for giving thanks to A...
It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the Sioux Indian Reservation in Dakota Territory created by Executive orde...
In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 28th June, 1879, requesting a copy of any correspondence which may have p...
It is impossible for me to look without grave concern upon a state of things which will leave the public service thus un...
The criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the United States is very extensive.
The law entitles these officers to be paid.
To deprive the National Government of these officers would be as disastrous to society as to abolish the sheriffs, const...
All appropriations to provide for the performance of these indispensable duties expire to-day.
Officers with corresponding powers and duties are found in every State of the Union and in every country which has a jur...
To establish the principle of this bill is to make a radical, dangerous, and unconstitutional change in the character of...
Either to allow necessary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of the appropriations req...
I earnestly urge upon your attention the necessity of making immediate appropriations for the maintenance of the service...
The offices thus provided for are essential to the faithful execution of the laws.
Believing that it was not the intention of Congress to require such repayment, the bill is returned without my signature...
It contains, however, other provisions, to which I desire respectfully to ask your attention.
I transmit herewith to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of that body of the ...
I can not consent to their absolute and entire repeal, and I can not approve legislation which seeks to prevent their en...
The fact that these laws are deemed objectionable by a majority of both Houses of Congress is urged as a sufficient warr...