Grover Cleveland: “The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.”

An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.'

Rule VI of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination in the departmental service a new clause, to read as follows:(d) Assistant Secretary Smithsonian Institution, in charge of United States…

I have not thought it compatible with the public interest that the correspondence referred to in the resolution should be communicated pending the public and exhaustive investigation about to be instituted.

There is a further objection to granting this pension.