Rutherford B. Hayes: “If necessary the aid and assistance of the military forces of the United States will be invoked to carry into proper…”

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.

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…

Provided, That this withdrawal shall not affect any existing valid adverse rights of any party.

I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States, have considered it to be my duty to issue this my proclamation, declaring that an extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene for the transaction of…