There can be no occasion to urge upon Congress the immediate enactment of a suitable law to carry into effect the patriotic purpose expressed in the will.

In accordance with the provisions of section 4119 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, I lay before you for revision a copy of the regulations for the consular courts of the United States in Korea, as decreed by the minister of…

I have felt the reproach which lawlessness has brought upon some of our communities.

I have appealed against race discriminations as to civil rights and immunities.

I will give the matter you have suggested the most serious consideration.

Lynchings are a reproach to any community; they impeach the adequacy of our institutions for the punishment of crime.

They brutalize the participants and shame our Christian civilization.

I have endeavored to hold up the law as the one single admissible rule of conduct for good citizens.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith the seventh annual report of the Commissioner of Labor, which report relates to the cost of producing textiles and glass in the United States and in Europe.

It also comprehends the wages and the cost of living of persons employed in the textile and glass industries.

Executive orders heretofore issued declaring the places subject to noncompetitive examination under clause (d) of section 2 of General Rule III are hereby amended so as to include among said places the following:In the Commission of Fish…

It is ordered,That the office of the United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classified departmental service

no person who may be appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and that no person who may be employed merely as a messenger, laborer, workman, or watchman, shall be considered as within this classification

no person shall be admitted to any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he or she shall have passed an appropriate examination under the United States Civil Service…

No orator, however gifted, can overpraise General Grant.

This stone which has now been laid, accompanied by this magnificent expression of popular interest, is only the top stone of a foundation, but it speaks to us of a structure, imposing and graceful in its completeness, which shall rise from…

Shall it rise with stately progress, without check or tardiness, until the capstone is set amid the plaudits of the liberal and patriotic citizens of this great city?

I am glad to see here what seems to me to be adequate assurance that this work, so nobly started upon, will be speedily consummated.