"In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 3d instant, calling for the reports of Gustavus Goward on the Samoan Islands, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with the ..."
"The failure of the last Congress to make the requisite appropriations for legislative and judicial purposes, for the expenses of the several Executive Departments of the Government, and for the suppor..."
"Regretting the existence of the emergency which requires a special session of Congress at a time when it is the general judgment of the country that the public welfare will be best promoted by permane..."
"It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands, situated in the State of Minnesota, be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart as a reservation for Indian pu..."
"I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do, by virtue of the power to this end in me vested by the Constitution, convene both Houses of Congress to assemble at their respective chamber..."
"Whereas the final adjournment of the Forty-fifth Congress without making the usual and necessary appropriations...presents an extraordinary occasion requiring the President to exercise the power veste..."
"I express, I believe, the general judgment of the Country, as well as my own, in assigning to this exhibition a measure of success gratifying to the pride and patriotism of our people and full of prom..."
"The very ample and generous contributions which the foreign nations made to the splendor and usefulness of the exhibition and the cordiality with which their representatives took part in our national ..."
"It gives me great pleasure to commend to your attention and that of the people of the whole country the laborious, faithful, and prosperous performances of their duties which have marked the administr..."
"There shall be, as there have always been, peace and friendship between the United States of America and the Ta Tsing Empire, and between their people respectively."
"I regard the very grave discontents of the people of the Pacific States with the present working of the Chinese immigration, and their still graver apprehensions therefrom in the future, as deserving ..."
"I have no occasion to insist upon the more general considerations of interest and duty which sacredly guard the faith of the nation, in whatever form of obligation it may have been given."
"I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers, submitted in pursuance of a resolution of the Senate of the 20th instant, in relation to railroads in Mexico."
"To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, dated the 17th instant, in relation to the destruction of the bark Forest Belle in Chinese waters in March la..."
"I transmit herewith report from the Secretary of State, and accompanying papers, in relation to proceedings of the International Prison Congress of Stockholm, held in August last."
"To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, the report of the commission appointed under the provisions of the act approved May 3, 1878, entitled..."
"It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the State of Colorado, to wit: Commencing at the intersection of the 37th parallel of north latitude with the 107th degree of west..."
"To the Senate of the United States:I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a report from the Secretary of State, with the accompanying papers therein referred to, in relation to the proc..."
