I recommend the immediate adoption by Congress of the necessary legislation to enable this Government to apply in the case of Sweden and Norway the same rule in respect to the levying of tonnage dues under the treaty of 1827 as was claimed…

I commend the matter to the favorable consideration of Congress.

In view of the statements made by the Secretary of State, I earnestly recommend that an appropriation of $5,000 be made in behalf of Mrs. Pauls.

I invite your attention to the papers herein referred to, showing the necessity for the proposed legislation, and ask that the bill herewith receive careful and early consideration.

I transmit herewith a communication of 16th instant from the Secretary of the Interior, submitting the report, with accompanying papers, of the commission appointed under the provisions of the act of March 2, 1889.

In consideration of the many important questions now under discussion by the conference, which should if possible be satisfactorily determined before the final adjournment, I earnestly recommend that a further act be passed to enable the…

I earnestly recommend that a further act be passed to enable the conference to continue its sessions for a period of two months from January 1, 1890.

It is neither safe nor wise to leave these people longer to the expedients which have temporarily served them.

The state of the Union is known from day to day, and suggestions as to needed legislation find an earlier voice than that which speaks in these annual communications of the President to Congress.

Good will and cordiality have characterized our relations and correspondence with other governments.

I invoke the diligent and serious attention of Congress to the consideration of these and such other measures as may be presented having the same great end in view.

No obstacle is believed to exist that can long postpone the consideration and adjustment of the still pending questions upon satisfactory and honorable terms.

Our people have an interest that the national capital should be made attractive and beautiful.

The existence of so large an actual and anticipated surplus should have the immediate attention of Congress, with a view to reducing the receipts of the Treasury to the needs of the Government as closely as may be.

I earnestly invoke the attention of Congress to the consideration of such measures within its well-defined constitutional powers as will secure to all our people a free exercise of the right of suffrage and every other civil right under…

The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are suppressed.

The security of our coast cities against foreign attacks should not rest altogether in the friendly disposition of other nations.

Our people will await with interest and confidence the results to flow from so auspicious a meeting of allied and in large part identical interests.