It would be of great advantage if these reports could have an alternative perusal by every member of Congress and by all who take an interes...
In my last annual message I stated that the basis of arbitration proposed by Her Majesty's Government for the adjustment of the long-pending...
After much correspondence and delays, for which this Government was not responsible, an agreement was reached and signed on the 15th of June...
Such a perusal could not fail to excite a higher appreciation of the vast labor and conscientious effort which are given to the conduct of o...
In view of the reports which had been received as to the diminution of the seal herds in the Bering Sea, I deemed it wise to propose to Her ...
If this agreement could have been reached earlier in response to the strenuous endeavors of this Government, it would have been more effecti...
Again I invite to every branch of the service the attention and scrutiny of Congress.
I now direct that in your Department a plan be at once devised and put in operation for keeping an efficiency record of all persons within t...
I think the records of efficiency kept from day to day should be open to the inspection of the clerks.
I have suggested to the heads of the Executive Departments that they consider whether a record might not be kept in each bureau of all those...
In my opinion the examination for promotion of those who present themselves should be chiefly, if not wholly, upon their knowledge of the wo...
Among the appropriate observances of the day are rest from toil, worship in the public congregation, the renewal of family ties about our Am...
To God, the beneficent and the all-wise, who makes the labors of men to be fruitful, redeems their losses by His grace, and the measure of w...
It is too great to be the work of man's power and too particular to be the device of his mind.
It is hereby ordered that the limits of the Hoopa Valley Reservation in the state of California, a reservation duly set apart for Indian pur...
Every ecumenical conference is a distinct step in the direction, not only of the unification of the church, but of the unification of the hu...
This subject is one that has long attracted the attention, and I think I may say has, perhaps, greatly attracted the interest and adherence ...
Let me thank you, Mr. Chairman, and you gentlemen of this conference, for the privilege of standing before you for a moment, and for this mo...
