The harmony of our relations with China is fully sustained.

I do not suppose that 'the public offices of the United States' are regulated or controlled in their relations to either House of Congress by the fact that they were 'created by laws enacted by themselves.'

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

I am quite prepared to avow that the cases are not few in which suspensions from office have depended more upon oral representations made to me by citizens of known good repute than upon any letters and documents presented for my…

I have forborne addressing the Senate upon the subject.

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

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

The important question, then, is whether it is within the constitutional competence of either House of Congress to have access to the official papers and documents in the various public offices of the United States.

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

I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department.

Race prejudice is the chief factor in originating these disturbances.

I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 9th instant, a statement showing the payments of awards of the commissioners appointed under the conventions between the United States and France concluded April 30…