If it be true that these are public lands, the declaration that they are so by enactment is entirely unnecessary;

Safety lies in noninterference by Congress with matters which should be left to judicial cognizance;

I am constrained to interpose an objection to a measure which proposes to suspend general and wholesome laws for the purpose of granting what appears to me to be an undeserved gratuity.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, the report of the National Board of Health for the year 1885.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 5th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying papers, a draft of a bill, prepared in the Office of Indian Affairs, 'for the relief of the Omaha tribe of Indians in…

I transmit herewith a communication of the 27th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.

That the exclusion of Chinese labor is demanded in other countries where like conditions prevail is strongly evidenced in the Dominion of Canada.

I believe the power to remove or suspend such officials is vested in the President alone by the Constitution.

This outrage upon law and treaty engagements was committed by a lawless mob.

I am not responsible to the Senate, and I am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduct to them for judgment.

Were there no treaty in existence referring to the rights of Chinese subjects; did they come hither as all other strangers who voluntarily resort to this land of freedom, of self-government, and of laws, here peaceably to win their bread…

Every pledge which I have made by which I have placed a limitation upon my exercise of executive power has been faithfully redeemed.