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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Nov 1, 1894

Provided, That the certificates of graduation of the Indian graduates of the normal classes at Santa Fe, N. Mex.; Salem, Oreg.; Haskell Institute, Lawrence, Kans.; Carlisle, Pa., and Hampton, Va., may be accepted by the Commission as the…

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Nov 1, 1894

No person appointed to a place under any exception made by any postal rule shall be transferred to any other place not also excepted from examination.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Aug 10, 1894

Upon the merits of the case I am of the opinion the judgment of the examining board ought not to be reversed.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Aug 10, 1894

The authority attempted by the bill to be given to the President to thus make an appointment to the office of paymaster in the Navy without the interposition of the Senate appears to be inadmissible under that clause of the Constitution.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 24, 1894

I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to revise the classification of the Department of the Interior so as to include therein the chief clerk and the assistant chief clerk at the Indian warehouse at New York.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 23, 1894

I herewith transmit a communication from the Secretary of State, coveting a dispatch from the United States minister at Honolulu.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 18, 1894

I return herewith the bill (S. 1105) entitled 'An act for the relief of Albert Redstone.'

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 12, 1894

I, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States of America, do hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the act aforesaid, proclaim the 1st day of March, 1895, as the day on which the said act approved August 19…

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 8, 1894

I do hereby command all persons engaged in or in any way connected with such unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes on or before 3 o'clock in the afternoon on the…

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 8, 1894

Except in the Department of Agriculture the chiefs of the following divisions: Entomology and economic ornithology and mammalogy.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 7, 1894

I hereby admonish all good citizens and all persons who may be or may come within the city and State aforesaid against aiding, countenancing, encouraging, or taking any part in such unlawful obstructions, combinations, and assemblages.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jul 7, 1894

The only safe course, therefore, for those not actually unlawfully participating is to abide at their homes, or at least not to be found in the neighborhood of riotous assemblages.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jun 24, 1894

The violent termination of a career promising so much in aid of liberty and advancing civilization should be mourned as an affliction to mankind.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jun 22, 1894

I herewith transmit a communication covering dispatches from the United States minister at Honolulu.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jun 20, 1894

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the customs district of Boston, office of the collector: One superintendent of warehouses.

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Grover Cleveland
@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· Jun 20, 1894

Special Customs Rule No. 1 is hereby amended by adding to the places excepted from examination therein the following: In the customs district of Philadelphia, office of the collector: Five chiefs of division.

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