Senate Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Public Documents and Executive Documents: 14th Congress, 1st Session-48th Congress, 2nd Session and Special Session, Volume 8

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Page 17 - But the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left to the executive power to determine when the danger of the state is so great, as to render this measure expedient...
Page 8 - Now, therefore, I, WILLIAM McKiNLEY, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested in me by the Constitution and the laws...
Page 11 - There would be no difficulty in the way of constructing a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean...
Page 8 - WHEREAS, satisfactory information has been received by me that combinations to resist the execution of legal process by force exist in the county of San Francisco, in this state, and that an unlawful organization, styling themselves the Vigilance Committee...
Page 5 - To the Senate of the United States: In further compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 5th instant, requesting me to...
Page 1 - FEBRUARY 8, 1864.—Read, referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. To the Senate of the United States...
Page 29 - And he entreated Abram well for her sake : and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.
Page 5 - To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 4th of August last, calling for information in relation to certain internal improvements, I transmit reports* from the Secretary of the Treasury and the Secretary of War.
Page 2 - ... as the only means left for its re-establishment. Martial law has also been resorted to in aid of the Government, when in imminent danger of being overpowered by internal or external foes. In such cases the measure has been regarded as excusable, but it never can be excusable where the object in resorting to martial law was to act against the existing Government of the country or to supersede its functionaries in the discharge of their proper duties. The latter seems to have been the principal...

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