I would rather cut off my right hand than do anything to disturb the business of this country.

So it is I am here, after having traversed I don't know how many states and visited I do not know how many cities.

The executive proposes and congress disposes.

Now, I hope that it has taken the railroads out of politics.

Well, the government of the United States is here all the time.

Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.

There may be a change of persons, but the government of the United States is in the people of the United States and there are a good many of the people of the United States in Chicago.

Executive Order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses all of townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 5 and 6 east, in Arizona, lying south of the Salt River, is hereby amended so as to withdraw…

Executive order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses so much of townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 5 and 6 east, in Arizona, lying south of the Salt River, is hereby amended so as to permanently…

It is hereby ordered that the following described lands in New Mexico, namely, T. 16 N., R. 1 E., New Mexico principal meridian, excepting any tract or tracts the title to which has passed out of the United States Government, or to which…

The important thing is to get our tariff legislation out of the slough of guesswork and logrolling and ex parte statements of interested persons, and to establish that legislation on the basis of tested and determined facts.

The empirical and haphazard character of this bill is shown more clearly perhaps in the amendment to Schedule A than in any other.

I can not make myself a party to dealing with the industries of the country in this way.

Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.

The matter is therefore submitted to the Congress in accordance with the recommendation of the Acting Secretary of State, with a view to its considering whether the President shall be authorized to relinquish to Cuba all right and claim of…

I concur fully in the conclusions which the Secretary of War has reached and in the recommendations which he makes.

The Navy Department has no objection to the proposed salvage operations, but the Department of State holds the view that these wrecks are public property of the United States, which may be alienated only by an act of Congress or by a…

Of course if it shall turn out that the most thorough excavation will not disclose the cause we must be content, but as long as there remains unexcavated any portion of the mud and debris within the wreck or its neighborhood from which…