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Page 74 - That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law...
Page 45 - The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (HR 18542) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes.
Page 5 - States; and that the sum of one hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to defray the expenses of missions and negotiations, to agree upon the terms of said admission and cession, either by treaty to be submitted to the Senate or by articles to be submitted to the two Houses of Congress, as the President may direct.
Page 8 - When a bill or resolution, which shall have passed in one house, is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed.
Page 68 - That our senators be instructed, and our representatives in Congress be requested, to use their influence to procure the...
Page 154 - These considerations render it important that we should, at every session, continue to amend the defects: which from time to time show themselves in the laws for regulating the militia, until they are sufficiently perfect; nor should we now, or at any time, separate until we can say we have done every thing for the militia which we could do were an enemy at our door.
Page 118 - Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of these resolutions to each of the Governors of the several states and territories of this Union, and that our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to lay the same before their respective Houses of Congress.^ TEXAS.
Page 155 - There are laws for establishing a uniform militia throughout the United States, and for arming and equipping its whole body. But it is a body of dislocated members, without the vigor of unity, and having little of uniformity but the name. To infuse into this most important institution the power of which it is susceptible, and to make it available for the...
Page 21 - Senator to represent this State in the Senate of the United States for the constitutional term commencing on the fourth day of March next.
Page 131 - Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives by the Secretary, who shall previously...

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