I anticipate that better and more uninterrupted commerce, through the plan suggested, between the great West and foreign ports, with the increase of national prosperity which must follow in its train, will not long escape American…

I am constrained to withhold my approval of the bill under consideration.

I return herewith without my approval House bill No. 9469.

It appears that terms of court are now held at four different places within the eastern judicial district of Texas.

It is also ordered,That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he shall have passed an appropriate examination prepared by the United…

It is ordered,That the officers and employees in or under this office included within the provisions of the civil-service law and rules be, and they are hereby, arranged in the following classes:

It is provided,That this classification shall not include persons appointed to an office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate nor persons employed as mere laborers or workmen;

It is nevertheless confidently believed that the treaty can not fail to be everywhere recognized as making a long step in the right direction.

I transmit herewith a treaty for the arbitration of all matters in difference between the United States and Great Britain.

The experiment of substituting civilized methods for brute force as the means of settling international questions of right will thus be tried under the happiest auspices.

I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of May 8, 1896, requesting information as to what had been done by the Department of State to carry out the provision in the act of March 2, 1895, making…

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State in response to the resolution of the House of Representatives of June 5, 1896.

I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 22d ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies of correspondence concerning the death of Charles Govin, a citizen of the United States in the…

Such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination and certification for such part of three months as will enable the Commission to provide eligibles.

I have not approved the bill.

I do hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the act of August 19, 1890, and by section 2 of the act of June 10, 1896, proclaim the 1st day of July, 1897, as the day on which the said act approved August 19, 1890…

I have not approved the bill.

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