Rutherford B. Hayes: “They are transmitted with the assurance that any measures that may be enacted in furtherance of these important…”

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in California, viz: Sections 26 and 35 in township 10 south, of range 1 west, and sections 2 and 3, in township 11 south, of range 1 west of the San Bernardino meridian be, and the…

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…

Believing that a measure for refunding the national debt is not necessarily connected with the national banking law, and that any refunding act would defeat its own object if it imperiled the national banking system or seriously impaired…

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.