A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1922, Volume 16Bureau of national literature and art, 1897 - Presidents |
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Page 6895
... Federal property , or if the State authorities in some crisis which they are unable to face call for help , then the Federal Government may interfere ; but though such inter- ference may be caused by a condition of things arising out of ...
... Federal property , or if the State authorities in some crisis which they are unable to face call for help , then the Federal Government may interfere ; but though such inter- ference may be caused by a condition of things arising out of ...
Page 6896
... Federal power . The Government has recognized heroism upon the water , and be- stows medals of honor upon those persons who by extreme and heroic daring have endangered their lives in saving , or endeavoring to save , lives from the ...
... Federal power . The Government has recognized heroism upon the water , and be- stows medals of honor upon those persons who by extreme and heroic daring have endangered their lives in saving , or endeavoring to save , lives from the ...
Page 6906
... Federal Government expends ten millions of dollars annually toward this education and for research in Washington and in the several States and Territories . The Department of Agriculture has given facilities for post - graduate work to ...
... Federal Government expends ten millions of dollars annually toward this education and for research in Washington and in the several States and Territories . The Department of Agriculture has given facilities for post - graduate work to ...
Page 6916
... Federal statutes permit naturalization by any court of record in the United States having common - law jurisdiction and a seal and clerk , except the police court of the District of Columbia , and nearly all these courts exercise this ...
... Federal statutes permit naturalization by any court of record in the United States having common - law jurisdiction and a seal and clerk , except the police court of the District of Columbia , and nearly all these courts exercise this ...
Page 6917
... Federal elections . The details of such a law may be safely left to the wise discretion of the Congress , but it should go as far as under the Constitution it is possible to go , and should include severe penalties against him who gives ...
... Federal elections . The details of such a law may be safely left to the wise discretion of the Congress , but it should go as far as under the Constitution it is possible to go , and should include severe penalties against him who gives ...
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Page 7145 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 6986 - Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites ; in proportion as they are disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there be within the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things that men of intemperate minds cannot be free....
Page 6869 - ... 10. Increasing or augmenting, or procuring to be increased or augmented, or knowingly being concerned in increasing or augmenting, the force of any ship of war, cruiser, or other armed vessel, which at the time of her arrival within the United States was a ship of war, cruiser, or armed vessel in the service of either of the said belligerents...
Page 6861 - An Act temporarily to provide for the administration of the affairs of civil government in the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes...
Page 7026 - No judgment shall be set aside, or new trial granted, in any case, on the ground of misdirection of the jury, or of the improper admission or rejection of evidence, or for any error as to any matter of pleading, or for any error as to any matter of procedure unless, after an examination of the entire cause, including the evidence...
Page 6966 - Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In...
Page 6954 - ... or when such foreign state or nation is a party to an international agreement which provides for reciprocity in the granting of copyright, by the terms of which agreement the United States of America may at its pleasure become a party to such agreement...
Page 6952 - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas the Congress of the United States...
Page 7092 - The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.
Page 7060 - Governments therein that they consider the point of inviting the Second Peace Conference at The Hague to examine the question of the compulsory collection of public debts, and, in general, means tending to diminish between nations conflicts having a peculiarly pecuniary origin.