The experiment of blending the social habits and mutual race idiosyncrasies of the Chinese laboring classes with those of the great body of the people of the United States has been proved by the experience of twenty years, and ever since…

But while thus exercising our undoubted right in the interest of our people and for the general welfare of our country, justice and fairness seem to require that some provision should be made by act or joint resolution under which such…

It seems to me that some suggestions and recommendations may properly accompany my approval of this bill.

when the same is no longer used as a cemetery it should revert to the Government.

the description of the land which the railroad company is allowed the option of purchasing should be exact and certain for the interest of all concerned.

The State of Kansas has been granted all the public land to which it can lay any legal or equitable claim under the law of 1862.

There should, in my opinion, be a provision that no bodies heretofore interred in this ground should be disturbed.

I herewith transmit, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, a copy of a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents, relative to the pending treaty with China.

Unless the Government is to be held as an insurer against injuries suffered by anyone in the military service, no matter how incurred, and also as guarantor of the good and peaceable behavior toward each other of the soldiers at all times…

If an American vessel should happen to have caught a cargo of fish at sea 100 miles distant from some Canadian port, from which there is railway communication to the United States, and should be denied the privilege of landing and shipping…

The people will hardly be deceived by their abandonment of the field of legislative action to meet in political convention.

Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation.

Our government is the creation of the people, established to carry out their designs and accomplish their good.

They ask for bread and they are given a stone.

The military service and prison experience of the deceased were in no manner connected with his death.

This case has been very exhaustively examined by the Pension Bureau upon the application for a pension filed there by the beneficiary named in this bill.

Upon a review of the evidence taken it appears to be well established that any disability of the beneficiary heretofore existing was not attributable to his military service.

I do not think these facts are proven or can be assumed.