I transmit herewith a special report of the Commissioner of Labor relating to compulsory insurance of workingmen in Germany and other countries.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 13th instant from the Secretary of the Interior

I thank you, sir, and these generous donors, for this testimonial of an incident which I am sure will be regarded as valuable in our history.

No acquiescence in wrong, no tame and spiritless submission to injury, can be the basis of respect, and friendship must be founded upon respect.

International intercourse must always proceed upon the basis of mutual respect and a yielding of mutual right.

It was given in a generous spirit, and I think the result of it has been that our relations with that brave people, whose history is so full of martial achievements and prowess, as well as with the sister Republics of South America, are…

I have felt great interest and enthusiasm in the rebuilding of the American Navy.

I felt that the honor of our country and of the Navy had been touched, and that nothing was left to us but, in a quiet and dignified and yet firm way, to insist upon suitable redress.

I have felt that it was not only essential as a matter of national defense, but that there was a prestige and influence for peace and good neighborhood between the nations of the earth in the completion and equipment of these great ships…

The statutes relating to the transportation of merchandise between the United States and the British possessions should be the subject of revision

If this article of the treaty is in force, the obligations assumed by the United States should be fully and honorably observed

It should be known before new legislation is proposed whether the United States is under any treaty obligations which affect this subject

The first and second and the third and fourth of these provisions are reciprocal in their nature

The question whether Article XXIX is still in force depends, so far as the construction of the treaty goes, upon the meaning of the words 'the term of years mentioned in Article XXXIII'

We have not stipulated in the treaty that we will permit merchandise to be moved through Canadian territory from one point of the United States to another at the will of the shipper

The questions whether we shall continue to allow merchandise to pass from one point in the United States, through Canadian territory, to another point in the United States, and, if so, to what exactions and examinations it shall be…

I am inclined to think that, using the aids which the protocol and the nearly contemporaneous legislation by Congress in the act of 1873 furnish in construing the treaty, the better opinion is that Article XXIX of the treaty is no longer…

To the Senate of the United States:In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, I return herewith the bill (S. 2625) entitled \An act to provide for the punishment of offenses on the high seas.\