I transmit herewith a report by the Secretary of Agriculture of the operations of the Bureau of Animal Industry of that Department for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1903, in compliance with the requirements of section 11 of the act…

Mrs. G. W. Shipman may be appointed a clerk in the Office of the First Assistant Postmaster-General without examination under the Civil-Service rules.

I transmit herewith a report from the Acting Secretary of State covering a statement showing the receipts and disbursements of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company for the month of November, 1903

The United States has taken the position that no other government is to build the canal.

We shall expect that these rights be exercised in a spirit befitting the occasion and the wants and circumstances that have arisen.

The United States will look with serious concern and disapproval upon any connection of any European government with the construction or control of any ship canal across the Isthmus of Darien or across Central America.

Sovereignty has its duties as well as its rights.

The enterprise was recognized as responding to an international need.

The guarantee included as a matter of course the building of the canal.

The Congress has decided the route and there is no alternative under existing legislation.

the maintenance of light-houses and other aids to navigation in the Territory of Hawaii is necessary for the safe navigation of the waters thereof by the vessels of the Navy and of the merchant marine of the United States, and for the…

Mrs. Frank L. Harrigan may be reinstated to the position of ruling machine feeder in the Government Printing Office without regard to the provisions of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility for reinstatement to one year from the date…

The attention of Congress is invited to the request of the Acting Secretary of State.

I transmit herewith a supplemental report by the Secretary of War, submitting additional data regarding land owned by the United States and under control of the War Department, in further compliance with an item contained in the sundry…

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with companying papers, concerning the claim of Lieut. Col. L. K. Scott, a British subject, on account of the adoption by the Ordnance Department of the United States Army of a…

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

This ordinance was approved by the President of the United States on March 21, 1903.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Highwood Mountains Forest Reserve.