I can not consent to their absolute and entire repeal, and I can not approve legislation which seeks to prevent their enforcement.

I transmit herewith to the Senate a report from the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of that body of the 20th instant, calling for the proceedings and accompanying papers of the International Silver Conference held in Paris…

The object of these sections of the Revised Statutes is plain.

I transmit herewith, in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State relative to the steps taken by this Government to promote the establishment of an interoceanic…

As I am without power, in the absence of legislation, to act upon the recommendations of the report further than by submitting the same to Congress, the proceedings and conclusions of the board are transmitted for the information of…

I have given to this report such examination as satisfies me that I ought to lay the proceedings and conclusions of the board before Congress.

This money is needed to keep in operation the essential functions of all the great departments of the Government--legislative, executive, and judicial.

The framers of the Constitution regarded the election of members of Congress in every State and in every district as in a very important sense justly a matter of political interest and concern to the whole country.

The true meaning and effect of the proposed legislation are plain.

I respectfully refer to that message for a statement of my views on the principle maintained in debate by the advocates of this bill.

It is confidently believed that no sound argument can be made in support of the constitutionality of national regulation of Senatorial elections.

The supervision of the elections will be reduced to a mere inspection, without authority on the part of the supervisors to do any act whatever to make the election a fair one.