I am constrained to recommend to Congress legislation upon this serious and pressing subject.

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State on the manufacture of milk sugar in Switzerland.

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the subject.

Any person in the classified departmental service may be transferred and appointed to any other place therein upon the following conditions:

But any person who has for three years last preceding served as a clerk in the office of the President of the United States may be transferred or appointed to any place in the classified service without examination.

It is sufficient that I should call the earnest attention of Congress to the circumstance that the statute makes no provision whatever for the somewhat numerous class of Chinese persons who, retaining their Chinese subjection in some…

This anomalous feature of the act should be reformed as speedily as possible...

The supposition should not be indulged that Congress...intended to make its protection depend upon the performance of conditions which it was physically impossible to perform.

The hardship has in some cases been remedied by the action of the courts.

To the House of Representatives: In response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of March, relative to the employment of substitutes in the Department of State, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State…

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior and the accompanying report, submitted by the governor of Alaska in compliance with section 5 of the act of May 17, 1884, entitled 'An act providing a civil government for…

The matter is commended to the favorable consideration of Congress.