Veto Message
06/20/1886
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I have not approved the bill.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4526, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jonathan Scott.'
The condition of affairs among the Five Civilized Tribes...has assumed such an aspect as to render it almost indispensab...
I am advised by the Pension Bureau that the bill, if it becomes a law in its present form, would be inoperative.