"I commend these suggestions and hope they will receive the prompt consideration of Congress."
"I invite your attention to the accompanying letter of the Secretary of State, submitting the recommendations of the International American Conference for the better protection of the public health aga..."
"This relief is probably due to the purchasers."
"Now, while it is entirely proper that the interest of the purchasers in these lands should share the burdens of the communities in which the lands are located, the title of the United States and the b..."
"I very gravely doubt whether the remnant or band of this tribe now living in Iowa has any interest in these lands in the Indian Territory."
"I do not well see how they have either an equitable or legal claim to participate in the proceeds of the sale of those lands."
"I can not too strongly urge upon Congress the necessity of giving this subject immediate and favorable consideration and of making adequate appropriations to carry the recommendations into effect;"
"The delegates of the seventeen neighboring Republics, which have so recently been assembled in Washington at the invitation of this Government, have expressed their wish and purpose to cooperate with ..."
"These papers present a full and clear statement of the matters of fact and questions of law which Congress will need to consider in passing upon the question of the ratification of the agreement, whic..."
"The United States owes a duty to Mexico to confirm to her citizens those valid grants that were saved by the treaty, and the long delay which has attended the discharge of this duty has given just cau..."
"No greater incubus can rest upon the energies of a people in the development of a new country than that resulting from unsettled land titles."
"The necessity for legislation is so evident and so urgent that I venture to express the hope that relief will be given at the present session of Congress."