Political Quotes

I commend to the favorable consideration of Congress the reasons upon which this recommendation rests.

Whenever upon marches, guards, or in quarters, different corps of the army happen to join or do duty together and an official of the Marine Corps or the militia shall command the whole pursuant to the 122d article of war, such officer…

Any authority heretofore exercised in the premises by the Naval Officer in command is hereby ratified as if said power to appoint had been conferred in said Executive Order of February 1, 1900.

To single out for payment a few claims of this large class to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unjust.