"I herewith transmit a report from the Secretary of the Treasury, in relation to the employment of steam vessels in the Revenue-Cutter Service."
"I herewith communicate to Congress copies of a letter from the governor of Iowa to the Secretary of State and of the documents transmitted with it, on the subject of a dispute respecting the boundary ..."
"The disagreement as to the extent of their respective jurisdictions has produced a state of such great excitement that I think it necessary to invite your early attention to the report of the commissi..."
"and would respectfully invite the consideration of Congress to some new legislation on a subject of so much interest and difficulty."
"I transmit herewith a report made to me by the Secretary of the Treasury, with accompanying documents, in regard to some difficulties which have occurred concerning the kind of papers deemed necessary..."
"In cases where commissions of the same grade and date interfere a retrospect is to be had to former commissions in actual service at the time of appointment."
"I nominate the persons named in the accompanying list for promotion and appointment in the Army to the several grades annexed to their names, as proposed by the Secretary of War."
"I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of War, which exhibits certain transfers of appropriations made in the War Department under the authority conferred upon the President of the United Sta..."
"At the time I entered upon my present duties our ordinary disbursements, without including those on account of the public debt, the Post-Office, and the trust funds in charge of the Government, had be..."
"The death of the late Sultan has produced no alteration in our relations with Turkey."
"A just regard to the delicate state of this question and a proper respect for the natural impatience of the State of Maine, not less than a conviction that the negotiation has been already protracted ..."
"I regret that I can not on this occasion congratulate you that the past year has been one of unalloyed prosperity."
"I regret to state the appearance of a different spirit among Her Majesty's subjects in the Canadas."
"I can not think that a serious objection would anywhere be raised to the receipt and payment of gold and silver in all public transactions were it not from an apprehension that a surplus in the Treasu..."
"I regret to be obliged to inform you that no convention for the settlement of the claims of our citizens upon Mexico has yet been ratified by the Government of that country."
"The financial operations of the Government during the present year have, I am happy to say, been very successful."
"The weight which presses upon a large portion of the people and the States is an enormous debt, foreign and domestic."
"It is indispensable that its finances should be untrammeled and its resources as far as practicable unencumbered."
