Grover Cleveland

This report relates to what is generally known as the slums of cities.

I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to revise the classification of the Department of the Interior so as to include therein the chief clerk and the assistant chief clerk at the Indian warehouse at New York.

I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of State, coveting a dispatch from the United States minister at Honolulu.

I return herewith the bill (S. 1105) entitled 'An act for the relief of Albert Redstone.'

I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the act aforesaid, proclaim the 1st day of March, 1895, as the day on which the said act approved August 19…

I do hereby command all persons engaged in or in any way connected with such unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the…

Except in the Department of Agriculture the chiefs of the following divisions: Entomology and economic ornithology and mammalogy.

The only safe course, therefore, for those not actually unlawfully participating is to abide at their homes, or at least not to be found in the neighborhood of riotous assemblages.

I hereby admonish all good citizens and all persons who may be or may come within the city and State aforesaid against aiding, countenancing, encouraging, or taking any part in such unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages.

The violent termination of a career promising so much in aid of liberty and advancing civilization should be mourned as an affliction to mankind.

I herewith transmit a communication covering dispatches from the United States minister at Honolulu.

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the customs district of Philadelphia, office of the collector: Five chiefs of division.

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the customs district of Boston, office of the collector: One superintendent of warehouses.

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State.

I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of April 6, 1894, a report of the Secretary of State, containing the requested information as to the present condition of affairs in the Samoan Islands.

From and after the date of this my proclamation shall be suspended the collection of the whole of the tonnage duty.

The results of such examination shall be reported by the Commission to the Secretary of Agriculture.

Section 6 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by striking from the list of excepted places in the Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture enumerated therein the following: The three professors of meteorology of…

I am convinced that this scheme is ill advised and dangerous.

I can not conceive of a longer step toward silver monometallism than we take when we spend our gold to buy silver certificates for circulation.

I believe that if the bill under consideration should become a law it would be regarded as a retrogression from the financial intentions indicated by our recent repeal of the provision forcing silver-bullion purchases.

I return without my approval House bill No. 4956, entitled 'An act directing the coinage of the silver bullion held in the Treasury, and for other purposes.'

I am unable to satisfy myself that the proposed legislation is either wise or opportune.

So much of clause 5 of Special Departmental Rule No. 1 ... is hereby revoked.

To the Senate:I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a convention concluded at this capital on the 17th instant between the United States and China concerning the subject of emigration between those two countries.