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

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

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

They brutalize the participants and shame our Christian civilization.

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

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

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

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.

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 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 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

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.

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?

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…

No orator, however gifted, can overpraise General Grant.

believing that the full use of silver as a coined metal upon an agreed ratio by the great commercial nations of the world would very highly promote the prosperity of all their people

I have not and will not let any favorable opportunity pass for the promotion of that most desirable result