 | United States - 1886 - 1192 pages
...to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department, but as deposited there for my convenience,...committee in its report appears to concede that there may he with the President, or in the Departments, papers and documents which, on account of their unofficial... | |
 | Democratic National Committee (U.S.) - Campaign literature - 1888 - 676 pages
...exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the flies of thedepartment.butasdeposlted there for my convenience, remaining still completely...control, I suppose If I desired to take them into in v custody I might do so wltb entire propriety, and If I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain.... | |
 | Grover Cleveland - History - 1892 - 620 pages
...duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department, hut as deposited there for my convenience, remaining still completely under my control. 1 suppose if I desired to take them into my custody I might do so with entire propriety, and if I saw... | |
 | George Frisbie Hoar - Dean, Forest of (England : Forest) - 1903 - 584 pages
...Department were in no sense upon its files, but were deposited there for his convenience. He said: "I suppose if I desired to take them into my custody...I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain." Continuing, the President says that the demands of the Senate '' assume the right to sit in judgment... | |
 | Book collecting - 1905 - 660 pages
...unofficial and private . . . and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. ... If I desired to take them into my custody I might...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. The requests and demands which by the score have for nearly three months been presented to the different... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - United States - 1906 - 994 pages
...unofficial .and piivate . . . and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. ... If I desired to take them into my custody I might...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. " The requests and demands which by the score have for nearly three months been presented to the different... | |
 | John Huston Finley, John Franklin Sanderson - Executive power - 1908 - 372 pages
...to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them as in no proper sense upon the files of the department, but as deposited there for my convenience,...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. . . . There is no mysterious power of transmutation in departmental custody, nor is there magic in... | |
 | Paul Samuel Reinsch - United States - 1909 - 880 pages
...to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department, but as deposited there for my convenience,...remaining still completely under my control. I suppose 1f I desired to take them into my custody, I might do so with entire propriety, and if I saw fit to... | |
 | Henry Jones Ford - Literary Criticism - 1919 - 260 pages
...the sharpest possible way by the declaration: "I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the department but as deposited there for my convenience,...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. " Moreover, there were cases in which action was prompted by oral communications which did not go on... | |
 | Allen Johnson - United States - 1919 - 248 pages
...the sharpest possible way by the declaration: "I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the department but as deposited there for my convenience,...if I saw fit to destroy them no one could complain. " Moreover, there were cases in which action was prompted by oral communications which did not go on... | |
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I regard the papers and documents withheld and addressed to me or intended for my use and action purely unofficial and private, not infrequently confidential, and having reference to the performance of a duty exclusively mine. I consider them in no proper... 
