
The measure under consideration does not with sufficient care specify and limit the officers and the parties who it is proposed to invest with discretion in the disposition of dead bodies.
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The measure under consideration does not with sufficient care specify and limit the officers and the parties who it is proposed to invest with discretion in the disposition of dead bodies.

The laws by which it is permitted should, in deference to a decent and universal sentiment, carefully guard against abuse and needless offense.

But instead of exacting the bond from the medical colleges, such bond is required of 'every physician or surgeon before receiving such dead body.'

It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico, viz, all those portions of townships 29 north, ranges 14, 15, and 16 west of the New Mexico principal meridian, south of the San Juan River…

The establishment by Federal authority of such a bureau would be a just and sensible recognition of the value of labor and of its right to be represented in the departments of the Government.

The laboring man may well insist, with manly courage and as a right, upon the same recognition from those who make our laws as is accorded to any other citizen.

I am constrained to recommend to Congress legislation upon this serious and pressing subject.

The present condition of the relations between labor and capital is far from satisfactory.

Under our form of government the value of labor as an element of national prosperity should be distinctly recognized.

A commission thus organized would have the advantage of being a stable body.

I am satisfied, however, that something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

If such a commission were fairly organized, the risk of a loss of popular support and sympathy resulting from a refusal to submit to so peaceful an instrumentality would constrain both parties to such disputes to invoke its interference…

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State on the manufacture of milk sugar in Switzerland.

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the subject.

But any person who has for three years last preceding served as a clerk in the office of the President of the United States may be transferred or appointed to any place in the classified service without examination.

Any person in the classified departmental service may be transferred and appointed to any other place therein upon the following conditions:

The hardship has in some cases been remedied by the action of the courts.

The supposition should not be indulged that Congress...intended to make its protection depend upon the performance of conditions which it was physically impossible to perform.