I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress and such legislation in respect of the matters therein presented as may seem necessary and proper, a report of the Secretary of State.

I do herewith transmit to Congress a copy of Mr. Denby's dispatch No. 754, of November 5, 1888, containing the regulations so decreed.

I transmit, with a view to its ratification, an agreement signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and Denmark.

A false statement made by an applicant, or procured by his connivance, or any deception or fraud practiced by an applicant, shall be good cause for refusal to examine such applicant.

There shall be four branches of the classified civil service, as follows: 1. The classified departmental service. 2. The classified customs service. 3. The classified postal service. 4. The classified railway mail service.

The Commission may refuse to certify an eligible who is so defective in sight, speech, or hearing, or who is otherwise so defective physically as to be apparently unfit to perform the duties of the position to which he is seeking…

Transfers may be made from one classified post-office to another, from any classified post-office to the classified railway mail service, and from the classified railway mail service to any classified post-office.

Amendments to General Rules II, III, IV, Departmental Rules V, VIII, Customs Rule III, and Postal Rules II, VI, are hereby made and promulgated as follows:

Superintendents of mails shall be selected from among the employees of the railway mail service.

No person may be transferred as herein authorized until the Commission shall have certified to the officer making the transfer requisition that the person whom it is proposed to transfer has passed an examination to test fitness for the…

I transmit herewith for the consideration of the Congress a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, recommending an appropriation for the relief of Japanese subjects injured and of the families of Japanese subjects…

Public feeling on the Pacific Coast excited in favor of it, and situation is critical.

I transmit with this, in paraphrase of the cipher, a copy of the said dispatch.

I now transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying correspondence, on that subject.

This bill directs the Postmaster-General to credit to the beneficiary therein named, who is the postmaster at Buena Vista, in the State of Colorado, the sum of $225, being post-office funds forwarded by him to the deposit office at Denver…

It is plain, therefore, that the bill herewith returned ought not to become a law unless it is proposed to duplicate the credit therein mentioned.

The above proposed amendment is hereby approved.

Departure from the lines there laid down is failure.