I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of September last, a repo...
The agreement is submitted for the consideration of Congress, as required by law.
The killing of General Barrundia on board the Pacific mail steamer Acapulco demanded careful inquiry.
The Nicaragua Canal project, under the control of our citizens, is making most encouraging progress.
The revenues, amounting to above $450,000,000, have been collected and disbursed without revealing, so far as I can asce...
It is confidently believed that the good relations of the two countries will be preserved and that the future will witne...
The International Marine Conference, which sat at Washington last winter, reached a very gratifying result.
The vast and increasing business of the Government has been transacted by the several Departments during the year with f...
I speak of these matters with freedom because the credit of this good work is not mine, but is shared by the heads of th...
The peace of Central America has again been disturbed through a revolutionary change in Salvador.
In the tariff act a wrong was done to the Kingdom of Hawaii.
It being evident that the minister, Mr. Mizner, had exceeded the bounds of his authority in intervening, I was constrain...
The Conference of Brussels, to devise means for suppressing the slave trade in Africa, afforded an opportunity for a new...
The closest scrutiny of Congress is invited to all the methods of administration and to every item of expenditure.
In every case of collision between two vessels it shall be the duty of the master or person in charge of each vessel, if...
If he fails so to do, and no reasonable cause for such failure is shown, the collision shall, in the absence of proof to...
That every master or person in charge of a United States vessel who fails, without reasonable cause, to render such assi...
I return to the Senate without my approval the bill (S. 473) 'for the relief of the Portland Company, of Portland, Me.'
