Men are not fit to govern themselves until they have sense and self-restraint enough to know what is their interest and to give every other man all that is coming to him according to right and justice.

More than that, the Grand Army of the Republic is most useful in this: it represents the concentrated opinion of the men who fought in the war to preserve the Union, and it therefore may give authoritative expression, which no other body…

I can conceive no bond of union stronger than that which unites the men who fought from '61 to '65 in the Grand Army.

They recalled that the Pretorian Guard of Rome was an instrument in furthering the ambition of those who would suppress free institutions and who were to assume despotic power.

Stephenson organized this Grand Army of the Republic to preserve the essence of that army in its finest characteristic, in its democracy and in its patriotism.

In the absence of the Secretary, the First Assistant Secretary, and the Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department, the Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department is hereby designated as Acting Secretary.

It is hereby ordered that the following land in Arizona, being a part of those withdrawn by Executive Order of December 12, 1882, for use of the Papago Indians, be, and hereby are, restored to the public domain: Section 16 and sections 19…

If it should ultimately reverse itself, still no taxes would have been collected until after protracted delay.

It imposes a burden at the source of the income at a time when the corporation is well able to pay and when collection is easy.

This course is much to be preferred to the one proposed of enacting a law once judicially declared to be unconstitutional.

It is undoubtedly a power the National Government ought to have.

I am informed that a 2 per cent. tax of this character would bring into the Treasury of the United States not less than $25,000,000.