The object of these sections of the Revised Statutes is plain.
It is not sought by the bill before me to repeal the election laws.
The States may employ both civil and military power at the elections, but by this bill even the civil authority to prote...
Unable to concur with Congress in that measure, on the 29th of May last I returned the bill to the House of Representati...
I transmit herewith, in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th ultimo, a report of t...
I have given to this report such examination as satisfies me that I ought to lay the proceedings and conclusions of the ...
As I am without power, in the absence of legislation, to act upon the recommendations of the report further than by subm...
I respectfully refer to that message for a statement of my views on the principle maintained in debate by the advocates ...
This money is needed to keep in operation the essential functions of all the great departments of the Government--legisl...
The true meaning and effect of the proposed legislation are plain.
The great body of the people of all parties want free and fair elections.
It is confidently believed that no sound argument can be made in support of the constitutionality of national regulation...
The constitutional authority to regulate the Congressional elections which belongs to the Government of the United State...
If the bill contained no other provisions, no objection to its approval would be made.
The supervision of the elections will be reduced to a mere inspection, without authority on the part of the supervisors ...
The United States election laws are not necessary, an ample reply is furnished by the history of their origin and of the...
The framers of the Constitution regarded the election of members of Congress in every State and in every district as in ...
The objections to the practice of tacking general legislation to appropriation bills, especially when the object is to d...
