Political Quotes

I respectfully invite the attention of the two Houses to the suggestion in the latter part of the report

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.

Made by him in connection with Lieutenant Lardner Gibbon, under instructions from the Navy Department

In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 13th instant, requesting a copy of correspondence and other documents relative to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and the territory claimed by the Mosquito Indians, I transmit a report of the…