"I congratulate Congress on the successful execution of the resumption act."
"The policy of the United States, steadily adhered to from the adoption of the Constitution, has been to avoid the creation of a national debt."
"United States notes began to be redeemed in coin."
"The retirement from circulation of United States notes with the capacity of legal tender in private contracts is a step to be taken in our progress toward a safe and stable currency."
"Now, therefore, I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, do appoint Thursday, the 27th day of November instant, as a day of national thanksgiving and prayer;"
"At no recurrence of the season which the devout habit of a religious people has made the occasion for giving thanks to Almighty God and humbly invoking His continued favor has the material prosperity ..."
"It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the Sioux Indian Reservation in Dakota Territory created by Executive orders dated January 11, March 16, and May 20, 1875, and November 28, 1876, be, and ..."
"In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 28th June, 1879, requesting a copy of any correspondence which may have passed between the Department of State and the Republic of Mexico in regard to th..."
"The law entitles these officers to be paid."
"It is impossible for me to look without grave concern upon a state of things which will leave the public service thus unprovided for and the public interests thus unprotected."
"The offices thus provided for are essential to the faithful execution of the laws."
"To establish the principle of this bill is to make a radical, dangerous, and unconstitutional change in the character of our institutions."
"Officers with corresponding powers and duties are found in every State of the Union and in every country which has a jurisprudence which is worthy of the name."
"To deprive the National Government of these officers would be as disastrous to society as to abolish the sheriffs, constables, and police officers in the several States."
"All appropriations to provide for the performance of these indispensable duties expire to-day."
"Either to allow necessary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of the appropriations required to keep them in operation, or to approve legislation which in official com..."
"I earnestly urge upon your attention the necessity of making immediate appropriations for the maintenance of the service of the marshals and deputy marshals for the fiscal year which commences to-morr..."
"The criminal jurisdiction of the courts of the United States is very extensive."
