Such a perusal could not fail to excite a higher appreciation of the vast labor and conscientious effort which are given to the conduct of our civil administration.
Again I invite to every branch of the service the attention and scrutiny of Congress.
If this agreement could have been reached earlier in response to the strenuous endeavors of this Government, it would have been more effecti...
To the Senate and House of Representatives: The reports of the heads of the several Executive Departments required by law to be submitted to...
After much correspondence and delays, for which this Government was not responsible, an agreement was reached and signed on the 15th of June...
In my opinion the examination for promotion of those who present themselves should be chiefly, if not wholly, upon their knowledge of the wo...
I now direct that in your Department a plan be at once devised and put in operation for keeping an efficiency record of all persons within t...
I think the records of efficiency kept from day to day should be open to the inspection of the clerks.
I have suggested to the heads of the Executive Departments that they consider whether a record might not be kept in each bureau of all those...
Among the appropriate observances of the day are rest from toil, worship in the public congregation, the renewal of family ties about our Am...
To God, the beneficent and the all-wise, who makes the labors of men to be fruitful, redeems their losses by His grace, and the measure of w...