Ours is a government by opinion and the press is the most important part of that process.

You are all aware that I have held that this transfer ought to be made.

I have not proposed to announce any of those until they are sent to the Senate.

If any reduction is to be applied to taxes, it is my own belief that it should be applied in that direction.

I want you to know of my appreciation.

The convention and protocol had my approval and were signed by the American minister at Ottawa by virtue of full powers issued to him by me.

I invite the attention of the Senate to the accompanying report by the Secretary of State on the subject.

I don't think in all my experience, which has been very large with people that come before me in and out of the Government with proposals for spending money, I have ever had any proposal from anyone as to what could be done to raise money…

I haven't seen one that is in opposition.

The policy of restrictive immigration should be maintained.

On the whole the finances of the Government are most satisfactory.

This action began by the application of economy to public expenditure.

For the first time during my term of office we face that contingency.

Those are the only three that are to come up during my administration.

In the case of events that everybody knows will occur it ought either to be provided by law or not provided for at all.

The United States Government was trying to fix the price of silver by law, which, of course, was bound to fail.

The main reason for this has been the sound foundation on which it stands.

Although we are well aware that in the immediate past, and perhaps even now there are certain localities where our citizens would be given over to pillage and murder but for the presence of our military forces, nevertheless it is the…