If it be true that these are public lands, the declaration that they are so by enactment is entirely unnecessary;
I am constrained to interpose an objection to a measure which proposes to suspend general and wholesome laws for the pur...
I transmit herewith a communication of the 5th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting, with accompanying...
To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, the report of the Nat...
I transmit herewith a communication of the 27th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.
Race prejudice is the chief factor in originating these disturbances.
I have forborne addressing the Senate upon the subject.
I am not responsible to the Senate, and I am unwilling to submit my actions and official conduct to them for judgment.
I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department.
I do not suppose that 'the public offices of the United States' are regulated or controlled in their relations to either...
I believe the power to remove or suspend such officials is vested in the President alone by the Constitution.