No greater incubus can rest upon the energies of a people in the development of a new country than that resulting from unsettled land titles...
The necessity for legislation is so evident and so urgent that I venture to express the hope that relief will be given at the present sessio...
The United States owes a duty to Mexico to confirm to her citizens those valid grants that were saved by the treaty, and the long delay whic...
To the Senate of the United States:In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 23d instant, the House of Representatives concurring...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 23d instant, the Senate concurring, I return herewith the bill (H. R....
I do not think so.
If there were no other objections to this bill, I should deem this alone sufficient, that no provision is made for submitting to a vote of t...
The bill does not submit the question of granting this aid to a vote of the people of the county, but confers direct authority upon the supe...
I have carefully examined the reports of the committees and every argument that has been submitted to me by the friends of the bill, but I c...
This great area is to be taxed to construct a road which can, in the nature of things, be of advantage to but a fraction of it.
It has been so often and so persistently stated that our tariff laws offered an insurmountable barrier to a large exchange of products with ...
There can be no doubt, I think, that with these facilities well established and with a rebate of duties upon imported raw materials used in ...
If sugar is placed upon the free list, practically every important article exported from those States will be given untaxed access to our ma...
When these examinations are concluded, the papers will, if found to be complete and conformable to law, be submitted to Congress.
In response to the resolution of the Senate of the 16th instant, relating to the negotiations by the Cherokee Commission for the purchase of...
It is not important, perhaps, that the United States should in parting with these lands realize their value, but it is essential, I think, t...
If proper penalties were imposed by law and a few convictions thereunder secured, I do not doubt that much waste of our forests would be pre...
A general proposition to erect public buildings at this scale of expense in cities of the size of Tuscaloosa would not, I am sure, receive t...
