Jan 12, 1879
In answer to a resolution of the Senate of the 17th of June last, requesting the Commissioner of Agriculture to send to the Senate certain reports on sheep husbandry, copies of the same, with accompanying papers, received from the…
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States, serving from 1877 to 1881. A member of the Republican Party, he was born in Ohio and became known for his strong stance against slavery as a lawyer and abolitionist. His presidency marked the end of Reconstruction, a significant period in American history following the Civil War, and he is often associated with the beginning of the Gilded Age, a time of rapid economic growth and industrialization in the United States.
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Jan 9, 1879
It is hereby ordered that all the public lands embraced within the following boundaries...be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and set apart for the use of the Pima and Maricopa Indians, in addition to their present reservation…
Jan 6, 1879
To the House of Representatives:In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 4th of December last, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers.
Dec 16, 1878
The agencies through which this change has been effected must be maintained and strengthened if the future is to be made secure.
Dec 16, 1878
If we have equal commercial facilities, we need not fear competition anywhere.
Dec 16, 1878
The laws have now directed a resumption of financial equality with other nations, and have ordered a return to the basis of coin values.
Dec 16, 1878
The importation of manufactured goods was at the same time reduced in an equal degree.
Dec 16, 1878
For fully twenty years previous to 1877 the shipment of gold was constant and heavy.
Dec 16, 1878
The external commerce of the United States has for many years been the subject of solicitude because of the outward drain of the precious metals it has caused.
Dec 16, 1878
They are transmitted with the assurance that any measures that may be enacted in furtherance of these important interests will meet with my cordial approval.
Dec 16, 1878
A return to excessive imports or to a material decline in export trade would render possible a return to the former condition of adverse balances.
Dec 15, 1878
In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 5th instant, I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with its accompanying papers.
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