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 6855
... desire to take only $ 2,000,000 out of the $ 10,000,000 from the United States Treasury after exchange of ratifications , leaving the remaining $ 8 , - 000,000 in the United States Treasury to be later on employed accord- ing to the ...
... desire to take only $ 2,000,000 out of the $ 10,000,000 from the United States Treasury after exchange of ratifications , leaving the remaining $ 8 , - 000,000 in the United States Treasury to be later on employed accord- ing to the ...
Page 6856
... desire of showing its good faith and its liberality toward the citizens of foreign countries who may think they have a just claim against it rather than by the sentiment that by right they owe any part of the Colombian debt . The ...
... desire of showing its good faith and its liberality toward the citizens of foreign countries who may think they have a just claim against it rather than by the sentiment that by right they owe any part of the Colombian debt . The ...
Page 6858
... desire of certain French citizens to present to this Government a reproduction of the bust of Washington by David d'Angers , which the donors wish to be placed in the Capitol . I recommend that Congress accept this gift by joint ...
... desire of certain French citizens to present to this Government a reproduction of the bust of Washington by David d'Angers , which the donors wish to be placed in the Capitol . I recommend that Congress accept this gift by joint ...
Page 6873
... desires the use of the lands set apart for the St. John's Mission School by the Secretary of the In- terior , and excepted from disposal in the proclamation of February 7 , 1903 , as aforesaid , said lands being described as follows ...
... desires the use of the lands set apart for the St. John's Mission School by the Secretary of the In- terior , and excepted from disposal in the proclamation of February 7 , 1903 , as aforesaid , said lands being described as follows ...
Page 6878
... desire to enter , settle upon , and acquire title to any of said lands under the homestead law , and of ascertaining their qualifications so to do . To obtain regis- tration each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified ...
... desire to enter , settle upon , and acquire title to any of said lands under the homestead law , and of ascertaining their qualifications so to do . To obtain regis- tration each applicant will be required to show himself duly qualified ...
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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.