Circumstances have placed under the control of this Government the Philippine Archipelago.
The scientific surveys which should be undertaken go far beyond any surveys or explorations which the government of the ...
It is not probable that the survey would be completed in a less period than that of eight or ten years, but it is well t...
The surveys, while of course beneficial to the people of the Philippine Islands, should be undertaken as a national work...
Only preliminary explorations have yet been made in the archipelago, and it should be a matter of pride to the Governmen...
No such organized surveys have ever yet been attempted anywhere; but the idea is in harmony with modern, scientific, and...
The islands of that group present as many interesting and novel questions with respect to their ethnology, their fauna a...
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives dated the 4th instant (the Senate concurring), I return ...
I recommend, therefore, that provision be made for the appointment of a board of surveys to superintend the national sur...
I should be ashamed to see this nation play the part of a weakling.
On the other hand, we have the right to expect from the representatives of the people a peculiar care for your interests...
Every friend of peace will join heartily in seeing that those arbitration treaties do become part of the supreme law of ...
There is a widespread conviction that the divorce laws are dangerously lax and indifferently administered in some of the...
No finally satisfactory result can be expected from merely State action.
We are not trying to strike down the rich man; on the contrary, we will not tolerate any attack upon his rights.
On the one hand we have the right to expect a peculiar measure of self-sacrificing service from you.
He will not and cannot do this if our laws are so defective that in the sharp competition of the business world the cons...
We must grow by evolution, not by revolution.
