Rutherford B. Hayes: “I respectfully urge upon your attention that the Congressional elections, in every district, in a very important sense…”

While, in my opinion, it would be unwise to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to offer to the public bonds bearing 3 1/2 per cent interest in aid of refunding, I should not deem it my duty to interpose my…

I would commend the suggestions and recommendation of the chairman of the Commission to the careful consideration of Congress.

I have the honor to inform the Senate that Hon. Benjamin Harrison, Senator elect from the State of Indiana, has resigned his office as a member of the Commission for the Improvement of the Mississippi River, and the same has been accepted…

I can not but regard the fifth section of the bill as a step in the direction of the destruction of the national banking system.