I herewith transmit to the House of Representatives copies of the final report and appendices of the joint commission appointed to explore a...
The country, I feel assured, would be represented at Paris in the person of Mr. Wise by one wholly unsurpassed in exalted patriotism and wel...
That review has satisfied me that I could not have a more able adviser in the administration of public affairs or the country a more faithfu...
I feel it, therefore, to be my duty to renominate him.
I was led to do so by considerations of his high talent, his exalted character, and great moral worth.
The respect which I have for the wisdom of the Senate has caused me again, since his rejection, to reconsider his merits and his qualificati...
His rejection by the Senate has caused me to reconsider his qualifications, and I see no cause to doubt that he is eminently qualified for t...
I did so in full view of his consummate abilities, his unquestioned patriotism and full capacity to discharge with honor to himself and adva...
A careful search in the Government libraries of Washington warrants me in asserting that the report has never been printed.
The copy of the report which was transmitted to the House of Representatives is missing from the files of the House.
A copy of the instructions from the Department of State to the minister of the United States at Mexico relative to the convention and of the...
I transmit to the Senate, for its consideration with a view to ratification, a convention further to provide for the payment of awards in fa...
To the House of Representatives: I communicate to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, which, with the documen...
By adverting to the signatures appended to the original draft of the convention as transmitted from the Department of State to General Thomp...
We chose to make a practical settlement of the question.
I may safely affirm that it never occurred to this Government that any new maritime right accrued to it from the position it had thus assume...
It is left to Congress to consider, under these circumstances, whether, although in strictness salvage may have been lawfully due, it might ...
Those engaged in it were as little liable to inquiry or interruption as any others.
