THE PENSION OFFICE is an immense red brick structure 400 x 200 feet. Here

is conducted the vast business of dispensing about $140,000,000 a year to
nearly a million pensioners. The chief architectural adornment of the
building is a broad frieze of military figures which passes all the way
around the building, typifying the resistless onrush of the national armies.

A COMPILATION

OF THE

MESSAGES AND PAPERS

OF THE

PRESIDENTS

1789-1902

BY

JAMES D. RICHARDSON

A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STATE OF TENNESSEE

VOLUME VII

PUBLISHED BY

BUREAU OF NATIONAL LITERATURE AND ART

1907

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

JUL 1 1914

CHARLES ELLIOTT PERKINS
MEMORIAL COLLECTION

Copyright 1897,

BY

JAMES D. RICHARDSON