Mr. Merrit O. Chance may be transferred from clerk to the Secretary of War to superintendent of post-office supplies in the Post-Office Department without taking a noncompetitive examination.

To the Senate:I transmit herewith a report by the Secretary of State furnishing the information concerning the Red Cross Society in foreign countries requested by the Senate resolution of January 19, 1904.

To the Senate:In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 1st instant (the House of Representatives concurring), I return herewith Senate bill No. 2323, entitled \An act relating to ceded lands on the Fort Hall Indian…

All positions in the civil service of the War Department in the Philippines, except those filled by persons employed merely as skilled or unskilled laborers, and by persons appointed by the President, will be treated as classified under…

Mrs. Marie L. Baldwin, whose name appears upon the Minnesota clerk register, may be certified for appointment as clerk at $900 in the Office of Indian Affairs without regard to the provisions of Civil-Service Rule VII.

Mr. Francis Walker, of Massachusetts, may be appointed a special agent in the Bureau of Corporations, at $2,000 per annum, without examination under the Civil-Service rules.

It is hereby ordered that the Executive order of January 25, 1904, is hereby modified and amended so as to permanently reserve from entry and settlement, and to constitute a part of the Pine Ridge Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota

military forces in aid of either belligerent cannot lawfully be originated or organized within their jurisdiction

it is the duty of a neutral government not to permit or suffer the making of its waters subservient to the purposes of war

no such vessel which may have been permitted to remain within the waters of the United States for the purpose of repair shall continue ... for a longer period than twenty-four hours after her necessary repairs shall have been completed

any citizens of the United States, and all persons residing or being within their territory or jurisdiction... can in no wise obtain any protection from the government of the United States against the consequences of their misconduct

they cannot carry such articles upon the high seas for the use or service of either belligerent, nor can they transport soldiers and officers of either, or attempt to break any blockade without incurring the risk of hostile capture

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith the response of the Secretary of State to the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives on January 25, 1904, calling for information in regard to carriages, horses, etc…

The attention of the Congress is called to the request of the Secretary of Agriculture that 5,000 copies of the report be printed for the use of the Department of Agriculture, and that provision be made to print such a report annually.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Baker City Forest Reserve.

I need hardly say how glad I am to welcome you here to Washington.

It is upon your interpretation of the acts done here that we must depend for having these acts received at the proper worth by the people as a whole.

The special rule of July 3, 1902, rendering certain persons who were in the employ of the United States in the military government of Cuba eligible to retention and employment in positions in the classified service of a grade corresponding…

It is for that reason deemed incompatible with the public interest to make it public at this time.

These four corners would thus ultimately be occupied by statues of Lafayette, Rochambeau, Von Steuben, and Kosciusko, all of whom in the stormy days which saw the birth of the Republic rendered service which can never be forgotten by our…

I advise that the very patriotic offer of the Polish organizations be accepted

For the reasons therein given I deem it incompatible with the public interest to forward the report by the special agent of the Treasury in question.

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of Commerce and Labor submitting a preliminary report of the Alaska Salmon Commission, appointed in accordance with the instructions in my letter of November 8, 1902.

The road is the symbol of civilization.

I recommend that, as an act of equity and comity, provision be made by the Congress for reimbursement to the firm of the money expended by it in making the repairs to the ship which the collisions rendered necessary.