"To the House of Representatives: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th of February last, calling upon the Secretary of State for copies of all the correspondence rela..."
"to authorize the purchase of a tract of land near Salem, Oreg., for the use of the Indian training school."
"The subject is recommended to the favorable consideration and action of Congress."
"To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate in executive session of the 27th of January, I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State and the papers..."
"I return herewith without approval, and with a statement of my objections thereto, Senate bill No. 150."
"It certainly seems to be such a transfer and relinquishment of all interests in the land mentioned on the part of the United States as to relieve the Government from any further concern therein."
"If a law of Congress could, in the manner contemplated by the bill, change, under the Constitution, the existing rights of any of the parties claiming interests in these lands, it hardly seems that an..."
"Safety lies in noninterference by Congress with matters which should be left to judicial cognizance;"
"Every possible question that can be raised, or at least that ought to be raised, in any suit relating to these lands has been determined by the highest judicial authority in the land."
"If it be true that these are public lands, the declaration that they are so by enactment is entirely unnecessary;"
"To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, the report of the National Board of Health for the year 1885."
"I transmit herewith a communication of the 5th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft of a bill, prepared in the Office of Indian Affairs, 'for the r..."
"I am constrained to interpose an objection to a measure which proposes to suspend general and wholesome laws for the purpose of granting what appears to me to be an undeserved gratuity."
"I transmit herewith a communication of the 27th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior."
"This outrage upon law and treaty engagements was committed by a lawless mob."
"Were there no treaty in existence referring to the rights of Chinese subjects; did they come hither as all other strangers who voluntarily resort to this land of freedom, of self-government, and of la..."
"Every pledge which I have made by which I have placed a limitation upon my exercise of executive power has been faithfully redeemed."
"I am quite prepared to avow that the cases are not few in which suspensions from office have depended more upon oral representations made to me by citizens of known good repute than upon any letters a..."
