"The killing of General Barrundia on board the Pacific mail steamer Acapulco demanded careful inquiry."
"The vast and increasing business of the Government has been transacted by the several Departments during the year with faithfulness, energy, and success."
"The revenues, amounting to above $450,000,000, have been collected and disbursed without revealing, so far as I can ascertain, a single case of defalcation or embezzlement."
"The closest scrutiny of Congress is invited to all the methods of administration and to every item of expenditure."
"I speak of these matters with freedom because the credit of this good work is not mine, but is shared by the heads of the several Departments with the great body of faithful officers and employees who..."
"The International Marine Conference, which sat at Washington last winter, reached a very gratifying result."
"The Conference of Brussels, to devise means for suppressing the slave trade in Africa, afforded an opportunity for a new expression of the interest the American people feel in that great work."
"It being evident that the minister, Mr. Mizner, had exceeded the bounds of his authority in intervening, I was constrained to disavow Mr. Mizner's act and recall him from his post."
"In the tariff act a wrong was done to the Kingdom of Hawaii."
"The Nicaragua Canal project, under the control of our citizens, is making most encouraging progress."
"That every master or person in charge of a United States vessel who fails, without reasonable cause, to render such assistance or give such information as aforesaid shall be deemed guilty of a misdeme..."
"In every case of collision between two vessels it shall be the duty of the master or person in charge of each vessel, if and so far as he can do so without serious danger to his own vessel, crew, and ..."
