It is ordered, That the office of the Interstate Commerce Commission be, and the same is hereby, classified as a part of the classified departmental service.

All officers and employees who have heretofore been classified under the civil-service act shall be considered as still classified and subject to the provisions of these rules.

No person in the executive civil service shall use his official authority or official influence for the purpose of interfering with an election.

The value of pension legislation depends as much upon fairness and justice in its administration as it does upon its liberality and generosity.

He was not enlisted, and was in no manner in the military service of the United States.

Aside from the question as to whether his present sad condition is attributable to the injury mentioned, it seems to me the extension of pension relief to such cases would open the door to legislation hard to justify and impossible to…

I herewith return without my approval Senate bill No. 894.

I do not see how the same relief as is contained in this bill can be denied to the many thousand widows who in a similar situation are now on the pension rolls under general laws.

This bill provides for the payment of a pension of $30 a month to the beneficiary named as the widow of Peter H. Allabach.

It is not now claimed that he was in the least disabled as an incident of his military service.

I return herewith without my approval Senate bill No. 249, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charles E. Jones.'

To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, I return herewith the enrolled joint resolution (S. R. 116) authorizing the Public Printer to print the Annual…

But Indians shall be eligible to appointment to any of said positions on such test of fitness as may be required by the Secretary of the Interior.

To the Senate.

I do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, now exists and is fulfilled in respect to the citizens of the United States of Mexico.

It is expected that Mr. Waller's release from imprisonment will be immediately forthcoming.

Nevertheless, upon a fair and just consideration of all the facts and circumstances as presented, and especially in view of Mr. Waller's own letters, the conclusions set forth in the report of the Secretary of State do not appear to admit…

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State and such portions of the correspondence requested as I deem it not inconsistent with the public interests to communicate.