"It is hereby further ordered that the following-described lands... be, and the same are hereby, restored to the public domain."
"I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 2173, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin Obekiah.'"
"It is entirely certain that the special act now presented to me would give the claimant no new rights or additional benefits."
"To the Senate of the United States: In response to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st ultimo, calling for certain correspondence touching the construction of a ship canal through Nicaragua, I tr..."
"I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a draft of declaration explanatory of Articles II and IV of the convention for the protection of submarine cables."
"I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1886, relative to the claims of Antonio Pelletier and A. H. Lazare against the Republic..."
"The matter is presented for the consideration of Congress."
"I transmit herewith a communication of the 7th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior."
"To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing statement of customs duties levied by foreign nations upon the produce and manufactures of the Unit..."
"I have ventured, therefore, in view of the demonstrated fitness of this nominee, to again submit this nomination to the Senate for confirmation."
"I nominate James C. Matthews, of New York, to be recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia, in the place of Frederick Douglass, resigned."
"Mr. Matthews has now been in occupancy of the office to which he was nominated for more than four months."
"I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the invitation from Her Britannic Majesty to this Government to participate in an international exhibition which is to be held ..."
"A convention between the United States and certain other powers for the protection of submarine cables was signed at Paris on March 14, 1884, and has been duly ratified and proclaimed by this Governme..."
"Legislation is needed to execute the provisions of our Chinese convention of 1880 touching the opium traffic."
"The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individ..."
"I express my unhesitating conviction that the intimacy of our relations with Hawaii should be emphasized."
"Our Government has consistently maintained its relations of friendship toward all other powers and of neighborly interest toward those whose possessions are contiguous to our own."
