Rutherford B. Hayes: “National promises should be kept with unflinching fidelity.”

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State upon the subjects embraced in that resolution so far as they touch the Department of State.

I have the honor to inform the Senate that Hon. John Sherman, Senator elect from the State of Ohio, has resigned the position of Secretary of the Treasury, and that said resignation has been accepted to take effect at the close of the…

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

The imperative necessity for prompt action and the pressure of public duties in this closing week of my term of office compel me to refrain from any attempt to make a full and satisfactory presentation of the objections to the bill.