Millard Fillmore: “The Acting Secretary of State will communicate this sad intelligence to the diplomatic corps near this Government and…”

In my opinion no further legislation is necessary to effect either object.

Since my last message to your honorable body, communicating a report from the Treasury Department, in answer to your resolution of the 3d instant (27th ultimo?), in reference to the compensation of weighers and gaugers, further…

It is deemed advisable by the Department that our diplomatic relations with the States of Central America should be placed on a higher and more efficient footing.

If Congress should be of opinion that the claim is just, every consideration points to the propriety of its prompt recognition and payment, and if the two Houses should come to the opposite conclusion it is equally desirable that the…