I therefore return the bill without my approval.

I don't see how either body could have been conducted during the session better than they were, and it is very difficult to see how they could have produced more constructive legislation and spent less time in useless debate than was spent in the last session.

I thought it was especially to the credit of the Congress that they had functioned as a legislative body in accordance with recommendations that I had made in my [message] without being constantly forced into some position by action on my part.

There was no bill of general importance that passed that I did not approve.

The tax measure I would say was the most important piece of legislation.

But the fact remains that no legislation of general import was passed that didn't have my approval.

I don't know about the necessity for legislation relative to the observance of the Sabbath in the District of Columbia.

I recall that when I was Governor of Massachusetts I signed a bill permitting the playing of baseball on Sunday, not professional baseball and not baseball where any admission is charged.

But the responsibility for legislation is theirs.

candor and a sense of duty with regard to the responsibility so clearly imposed upon me by the Constitution in matters of legislation leave me no choice but to dissent.

In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 28th instant, the House of Representatives concurring, I return herewith the bill (S. 1332).

I am sure it will be the disposition of Congress to consider promptly and in a just and friendly spirit the claims presented by these Indians through our commissioners, which have been formulated in the draft of a bill prepared by the Secretary of the Interior and submitted herewith.

The matter is presented for the early consideration of Congress.

This agreement involves a departure from the terms of the general allotment act in at least one important particular.

All persons will take notice of the provisions of said act and of the conditions, limitations, and restrictions therein contained, and be governed accordingly.

The appropriations necessary to carry into effect the provisions of the act should be promptly made and be immediately available.

I commend the matter to the favorable consideration of Congress.

It is by no means certain that this proposed legislation...would be upheld.