How vividly come to my memory many battle scenes; not the impetuous rush of conflict, but the cover of sadness that followed victory.

Let us take on this occasion a new draught of courage, make new vows of consecration.

We mourn for them as comrades who have departed, but we feel the glory of their dying and the glory of their achievement covers all our great country, and has set them in an imperishable roll of honor.

We can not ask less than that in all relations they shall obey the law, and they shall yield to every other man his full rights under the law.

I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day.

We laid them elbow touching elbow in the order in which they had stood in the line of battle.

It was as if heaven was approving the human liberty and human equality typified by that flag.

I have recently returned from an extended tour of the States, and nothing so impressed and so refreshened me as the universal display of this banner of beauty and glory.

I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it.

We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did.

I thank you for the pleasure of participating in these exercises with you to-day, and give you a comrade's best wishes, and a comrade's good-bye.

I have neither the strength nor the voice adequate to any extended speech to-day.

It gives me special pleasure to combine with that tribute, which I have usually been able to pay since this day was instituted, to the dead of all our armies, a special mark of respect to that great soldier who won Gettysburg.

I appreciate most highly this generous welcome which you extend to me, and shall take part in these exercises of the day with a sense of their fitness and of the great events which they commemorate.

It is hereby ordered, That the several Executive Departments and the Government Printing Office be closed on Saturday, the 30th instant, to enable the employees to participate in the decoration of the graves of the soldiers and sailors who…

I approve of the within classification, and if you see no reason to suggest any further modification you will please put it in force.

No person shall kill any otter, mink, marten, sable, or fur seal, or other fur-bearing animal within the limits of Alaska Territory or in the waters thereof; and every person guilty thereof shall for each offense be fined not less than…

I hereby warn all persons against entering the waters of Bering Sea within the dominion of the United States for the purpose of violating the provisions of said section 1956, Revised Statutes;

All persons found to be or to have been engaged in any violation of the laws of the United States in said waters will be arrested and punished as above provided, and that all vessels so employed, their tackle, apparel, furniture, and…

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination therein the following:In the Treasury Department, office of the Secretary: One clerk in the office of the disbursing clerk.

Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended so as to include among the places excepted from examination therein the following:In the Department of Agriculture, in the office of the Secretary: Clerk to act as appointment clerk.

If I rightly construe this bill, it authorizes the Court of Claims to give judgment in favor of the contractor with the United States for the construction of the vessels named (AgawamandPontoosuc) for the difference between the contract…

The bill is somewhat obscure, but I have, I think, correctly stated the legal effect of it.

To the Senate:I return herewith without my approval the bill (S. 3270) \for the relief of the administratrix of the estate of George W. Lawrence.\

The expenditure that such a policy would entail is incalculable, and the policy itself is, in my judgment, indefensible.