In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives dated the 4th instant (the Senate concurring), I return ...
Only preliminary explorations have yet been made in the archipelago, and it should be a matter of pride to the Governmen...
I recommend, therefore, that provision be made for the appointment of a board of surveys to superintend the national sur...
Circumstances have placed under the control of this Government the Philippine Archipelago.
No such organized surveys have ever yet been attempted anywhere; but the idea is in harmony with modern, scientific, and...
The islands of that group present as many interesting and novel questions with respect to their ethnology, their fauna a...
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 t...
The surveys, while of course beneficial to the people of the Philippine Islands, should be undertaken as a national work...
Justice—so far as it is humanly possible to give and to get justice—is the foundation of our government.
There is a widespread conviction that the divorce laws are dangerously lax and indifferently administered in some of the...
Every friend of peace will join heartily in seeing that those arbitration treaties do become part of the supreme law of ...
He will not and cannot do this if our laws are so defective that in the sharp competition of the business world the cons...
On the other hand, we have the right to expect from the representatives of the people a peculiar care for your interests...
Of all foolish crimes, of all baseless figments of a disturbed imagination, the cry of militarism in this country is the...
The right of incorporation ought to be suspended at once until Congress can devise proper legislation for guarding its e...
I should be ashamed to see this nation play the part of a weakling.
I fail to see how any good American can be other than a better American when he comes here to Annapolis.
There must be no hurry, but there must also be no halt; and those who are anxious that there should be no sudden and vio...
