The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

Good government has for its objects the protection of every person within its care in the greatest liberty consistent with the good order of society.

The encouraging development of beneficial and intimate relations between the United States and Mexico is at once the occasion of congratulation and of friendly solicitude.

I do hereby revoke the suspension of the discriminating customs imposed and levied in the ports of the United States on the products of and articles proceeding under the Spanish flag from Cuba and Puerto Rico.

I don't see why they should not be paid both compensations.

It is not approved because I believe it to be unnecessary and because I am by no means convinced that its mere passage and approval at this time may not endanger and embarrass the successful and useful operations of the Treasury Department.

I am not willing to agree to his release from the consequence of his failure to perform his contract.

I am still unable to see how the objection to the first bill has been obviated.

I am constrained to dissent.

The fact of this payment and important information bearing upon the validity of some of the other claims mentioned in the bill could have been easily obtained by application to the Third Auditor.

If there is anything in the argument last referred to it seems so well answered by the maintenance of the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

They ought not to complain if they have received the amount for which they agreed to work.

I do not understand this resolution nor the purposes sought to be accomplished by its passage.

I am of the opinion that claims for extra compensation such as these should be firmly discountenanced.

I think the circumstances here presented, especially the fact of nonresidence by the son with his mother since her second marriage, do not call for a departure from the law governing claims based upon dependence.

But the most favorable phase of the case does not aid her, since her claim rests upon the allegation that her husband was subject to epileptic fits and died from congestion of the brain while in one of these fits.

This is not a pleasant recital, and as against the widow I should be glad to avoid its effect.

the cause of his death, it seems to me, can not possibly upon any reasonable theory be attributable to any incident of his military service.