I transmit herewith, for approval and ratification, a provisional agreement lately entered into between the Government of the United States ...
The facts of the case as now presented appear to me to lead in the most satisfactory manner to the conclusion that the soldier's death was i...
I shall hereafter communicate to the Congress all information received by me in relation to the Samoan status.
I lose no time in laying them before you.
For the information of Congress I herewith transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying correspondence, relating to the ex...
It is also proper to inform you that on Monday, the 28th instant, the occasion of the communication of the note of the Prince Chancellor, th...
The records do not show that he suffered from any disability during his term of service.
I was constrained to return without approval a bill identical with the one herewith returned.
He died June 7, 1881, and there does not appear to have been any evidence produced as to the cause of his death.
Upon reexamination I am still of the same opinion, which leads me to again return the bill under consideration without approval.
It seemed to me at that time that the soldier's death could not be held to be the result of his wound or any other cause chargeable to his m...
A soldier with such a record should not be pensioned.
I can not believe that such a departure as is proposed should be made from the just principles upon which pension legislation ought to be pr...
It is proposed by this bill to pension the beneficiary therein named as the widow of Newton E. Drake.
To hold that a man engaged on a vessel transporting recruits to a rendezvous should be allowed the same advantages as those actually engaged...
I am decidedly of the opinion that the relations, the duties, and the obligations of subordinates in public employment should be clearly def...
The proof of disability, such as it is, is as consistent with its incurrence during desertion as it is with the theory that the beneficiary ...
I have the honor to lay before you a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying correspondence, in relation to the possible distu...
