As it is desirable that uniform usage in regard to geographic nomenclature and orthography obtain throughout the Executi...
The members of this board shall serve without additional compensation and its organization shall entail no expense on th...
Department officers are instructed to afford such assistance as may be proper to carry on the work of this board.
The decisions of the board are to be accepted by these Departments as the standard authority in such matters.
To consider the location, arrangement, and operation of electric wires in the District of Columbia,
I transmit herewith, for your information, a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing the first annual report and c...
If this agreement could have been reached earlier in response to the strenuous endeavors of this Government, it would ha...
After much correspondence and delays, for which this Government was not responsible, an agreement was reached and signed...
It would be of great advantage if these reports could have an alternative perusal by every member of Congress and by all...
Such a perusal could not fail to excite a higher appreciation of the vast labor and conscientious effort which are given...
The reports will, I believe, show that every question has been approached, considered, and decided from the standpoint o...
Again I invite to every branch of the service the attention and scrutiny of Congress.
In my last annual message I stated that the basis of arbitration proposed by Her Majesty's Government for the adjustment...
To the Senate and House of Representatives: The reports of the heads of the several Executive Departments required by la...
In view of the reports which had been received as to the diminution of the seal herds in the Bering Sea, I deemed it wis...
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...
In my opinion the examination for promotion of those who present themselves should be chiefly, if not wholly, upon their...