If a law of Congress could, in the manner contemplated by the bill, change, under the Constitution, the existing rights of any of the partie...
Safety lies in noninterference by Congress with matters which should be left to judicial cognizance;
I return herewith without approval, and with a statement of my objections thereto, Senate bill No. 150.
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 ...
I am constrained to interpose an objection to a measure which proposes to suspend general and wholesome laws for the purpose of granting wha...
I transmit herewith a communication of the 5th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft of ...
To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, the report of the National Board of Healt...
I transmit herewith a communication of the 27th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.
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...
I am not responsible to the Senate, and I am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduct to them for judgment.
Were there no treaty in existence referring to the rights of Chinese subjects; did they come hither as all other strangers who voluntarily r...
The harmony of our relations with China is fully sustained.
This outrage upon law and treaty engagements was committed by a lawless mob.
Every pledge which I have made by which I have placed a limitation upon my exercise of executive power has been faithfully redeemed.
I do not suppose that 'the public offices of the United States' are regulated or controlled in their relations to either House of Congress b...
I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department.
I believe the power to remove or suspend such officials is vested in the President alone by the Constitution.
I have forborne addressing the Senate upon the subject.
