Should this recommendation accord with the opinion of Congress, they will recollect that it can not be accomplished by any means yet in the hands of the Executive.

In 1883 Congress passed the Civil Service Act, allowing the president to select a board of examiners on whose recommendation appointments are made.

Do you want any money or a recommendation down-country?

When anyone is undertaking the gravest responsibility which has been an Englishman's for a hundred years, this kind of a recommendation helps.

The experience of the last year furnishes additional reasons, I regret to say, of a painful character, for the recommendation heretofore made to provide for increasing the military force employed in the Territory inhabited by the Indians.

This recommendation proceeds on the supposition that dost and didst are smoother syllables than est and edst; which is not true: didst learn is harsher than either learnedst or learntest; and all three of them are intolerable in common discourse.

While under this general recommendation provision for defending our seacoast line readily occurs to the mind, I also in the same connection ask the attention of Congress to our great lakes and rivers.