Under our form of government the value of labor as an element of national prosperity should be distinctly recognized.

The establishment by Federal authority of such a bureau would be a just and sensible recognition of the value of labor and of its right to be represented in the departments of the Government.

The present condition of the relations between labor and capital is far from satisfactory.

If such a commission were fairly organized, the risk of a loss of popular support and sympathy resulting from a refusal to submit to so peaceful an instrumentality would constrain both parties to such disputes to invoke its interference…

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.

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.

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

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

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…

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.