It seems absolutely certain that within a few years a great volume of shipping will extend to that location, which would be seriously embarr...
It is certainly very questionable whether piers should be permitted at all in the North River at the point designated for the location of th...
I am convinced that such a relaxation of our existing land laws as is contemplated by the bill under consideration would not be in the inter...
I fully concur in the objections made to this bill by the officers having charge of the public lands.
I return without my approval House bill No. 71.
The dispatch numbered 70 and dated October 8, 1892, above referred to, is still withheld for the reason that such a course still appears to ...
Inasmuch as the contents of the dispatch of November 16, 1893, are referred to in the dispatches of a more recent date, now sent to Congress...
In transmitting certain correspondence with my message dated December 18, 1893, I withheld a dispatch from our present minister, numbered 3 ...
To test fitness for the classified departmental service there shall be a clerk-copyist examination and such supplementary and special examin...
It is cause for congratulation that watchfulness and care and fidelity to its purposes are all that are necessary to insure to the Governmen...
The existence of a surplus in the Treasury is no answer to these objections.
The loyal States should not be paid the large sums of money promised them by this bill because they were loyal and other States were not.
A government is not only kind, but performs its highest duty when it restores to the citizen taxes unlawfully collected.
The direct tax levied in 1861 is not even suspected of invalidity.
I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of State, in further response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 22d (...
It will hardly do to say that the States and Territories who are the recipients of these large gifts may be trusted to do justice to its cit...
I regard the cause of civil service reform as so firmly established and its value so fully demonstrated.
Any other theory cheapens and in a measure discredits a process which more than any other is a manifestation of sovereign authority.
