To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing statement of custom...
I have ventured, therefore, in view of the demonstrated fitness of this nominee, to again submit this nomination to the ...
Mr. Matthews has now been in occupancy of the office to which he was nominated for more than four months.
I nominate James C. Matthews, of New York, to be recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia, in the place of Frederic...
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the invitation from Her Britannic Majesty to th...
Good government has for its objects the protection of every person within its care in the greatest liberty consistent wi...
A convention between the United States and certain other powers for the protection of submarine cables was signed at Par...
The cruel treatment of inoffensive Chinese has, I regret to say, been repeated in some of the far Western States and Ter...
Legislation is needed to execute the provisions of our Chinese convention of 1880 touching the opium traffic.
Nothing can be accomplished, however, in the direction of this much-needed reform unless the subject is approached in a ...
The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of...
The claims for interest upon the amount of tonnage dues illegally exacted from certain German steamship lines were favor...
I express my unhesitating conviction that the intimacy of our relations with Hawaii should be emphasized.
The moral right and duty of the United States to assist in all proper ways in the maintenance of its integrity is obviou...
The encouraging development of beneficial and intimate relations between the United States and Mexico is at once the occ...
Our Government has consistently maintained its relations of friendship toward all other powers and of neighborly interes...
I do hereby revoke the suspension of the discriminating customs imposed and levied in the ports of the United States on ...
They ought not to complain if they have received the amount for which they agreed to work.
