Legislation

But the fact remains that no legislation of general import was passed that didn't have my approval.

There was no bill of general importance that passed that I did not approve.

The tax measure I would say was the most important piece of legislation.

I recall that when I was Governor of Massachusetts I signed a bill permitting the playing of baseball on Sunday, not professional baseball and not baseball where any admission is charged.

I don't know about the necessity for legislation relative to the observance of the Sabbath in the District of Columbia.

But the responsibility for legislation is theirs.

Candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution in matters of legislation leave me no choice but to dissent.

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 28th instant, the House of Representatives concurring, I return herewith the bill (S. 1332).

I am sure it will be the disposition of Congress to consider promptly and in a just and friendly spirit the claims presented by these Indians through our commissioners, which have been formulated in the draft of a bill prepared by the…

The matter is presented for the early consideration of Congress.

This agreement involves a departure from the terms of the general allotment act in at least one important particular.

All persons will take notice of the provisions of said act and of the conditions, limitations, and restrictions therein contained, and be governed accordingly.

The appropriations necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the act should be promptly made and be immediately available.

I commend the matter to the favorable consideration of Congress.

It is by no means certain that this proposed legislation...would be upheld.

Upon the merits as the case now stands, and because of the mistake in describing the relationship of the beneficiary, this bill, I think, should not become a law.

There should, in my opinion, be a provision that no bodies heretofore interred in this ground should be disturbed.

This case has been very exhaustively examined by the Pension Bureau upon the application for a pension filed there by the beneficiary named in this bill.