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 6868
... exercising a commission to serve either of the said belligerents by land or by sea against the other belligerent . 2. Enlisting or entering into the service of either of the said belligerents as a soldier , or as a marine , or seaman on ...
... exercising a commission to serve either of the said belligerents by land or by sea against the other belligerent . 2. Enlisting or entering into the service of either of the said belligerents as a soldier , or as a marine , or seaman on ...
Page 6893
... exercise of the power vested in the President by Section 1753 of the Revised Statutes and acts amendatory thereof : IT IS ORDERED , That the Isthmian Canal Commission be classified and the civil - service act and rules applied thereto ...
... exercise of the power vested in the President by Section 1753 of the Revised Statutes and acts amendatory thereof : IT IS ORDERED , That the Isthmian Canal Commission be classified and the civil - service act and rules applied thereto ...
Page 6916
... exercise this important function . It results that where so many courts of such varying grades have jurisdiction , there is lack of uni- formity in the rules applied in conferring naturalization . Some courts are strict and others lax ...
... exercise this important function . It results that where so many courts of such varying grades have jurisdiction , there is lack of uni- formity in the rules applied in conferring naturalization . Some courts are strict and others lax ...
Page 6919
... exercise and cast them upon the governor . This would not be an innovation ; it would simply conform the government of Alaska to fundamental principles , making the governorship a real instead of a merely nominal office , and leaving ...
... exercise and cast them upon the governor . This would not be an innovation ; it would simply conform the government of Alaska to fundamental principles , making the governorship a real instead of a merely nominal office , and leaving ...
Page 6922
... exercise . of that right can not be divorced . One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards . Neither does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful , too ...
... exercise . of that right can not be divorced . One of our great poets has well and finely said that freedom is not a gift that tarries long in the hands of cowards . Neither does it tarry long in the hands of those too slothful , too ...
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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.