It is not probable that the survey would be completed in a less period than that of eight or ten years, but it is well that it should be beg...
No such organized surveys have ever yet been attempted anywhere; but the idea is in harmony with modern, scientific, and industrial methods.
The scientific surveys which should be undertaken go far beyond any surveys or explorations which the government of the Philippine Islands, ...
I recommend, therefore, that provision be made for the appointment of a board of surveys to superintend the national surveys and exploration...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives dated the 4th instant (the Senate concurring), I return herewith House bill ...
The surveys, while of course beneficial to the people of the Philippine Islands, should be undertaken as a national work for the information...
It should not be under the control of the authorities of the Philippine Islands, for it should be undertaken as a national work and subject ...
Only preliminary explorations have yet been made in the archipelago, and it should be a matter of pride to the Government of the United Stat...
Circumstances have placed under the control of this Government the Philippine Archipelago.
The islands of that group present as many interesting and novel questions with respect to their ethnology, their fauna and flora, and their ...
I should be ashamed to see this nation play the part of a weakling.
The evil growing out of these laws is of such magnitude and the necessity for action is so urgent that I recommend to Congress the immediate...
The institution of marriage is, of course, at the very foundation of our social organization.
No finally satisfactory result can be expected from merely State action.
Justice—so far as it is humanly possible to give and to get justice—is the foundation of our government.
I earnestly hope that our foreign policy shall be continued absolutely without regard to change of administration, to change of party.
The case calls for the most radical remedy.
I deem the matter of sufficient general importance to recommend that the Director of the Census be authorized by appropriate legislation to ...
