Government

I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and other employees of the United States Civil Service Commission shall be arranged in the following classes.

These intruders should forthwith feel the weight of the Government's power.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 24th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.

The matter is presented for the consideration and action of Congress.

I transmit herewith a communication of 22d ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.

I transmit herewith a communication of 23d ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.

The simple and plain duty which we owe the people is to reduce taxation to the necessary expenses of an economical operation of the Government.

No condition ought to exist which would justify the grant of power to a single official, upon his judgment of its necessity, to withhold from or release to the business of the people money held in the Treasury.

Any direction as to the final disposition of them should originate with Congress.

The Government is not an almoner of gifts among the people, but an instrumentality by which the people's affairs should be conducted upon business principles, regulated by the public needs.

She is now under the general law receiving precisely the pension which she would receive under the bill herewith returned if the same should be approved.

I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 1162.

I do not suppose that it was intended by the Congress to entirely relieve these sureties if a condition exists such as is above set out, which results in an indebtedness to the Government.

The beneficiary mentioned in this bill is now receiving the highest rate of pension allowed in cases such as hers under the general law.

In the interest of the beneficiary and for her advantage the special bill is therefore disapproved.

This case demonstrates the means employed in attempts to cheat the Government in applications for pensions--too often successful.

I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the House of the 24th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State.

I withhold my assent from this bill because, if the facts before me... are true, the allowance of this claim would, in my opinion, be a travesty upon our whole scheme of pensions and an insult to every decent veteran soldier.