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Fourth Annual Message (first term)

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Jan 11, 1897

It is also ordered,That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he shall have passed an appropriate examination prepared by the United…

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Jan 17, 1897

I anticipate that better and more uninterrupted commerce, through the plan suggested, between the great West and foreign ports, with the increase of national prosperity which must follow in its train, will not long escape American…

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Jan 10, 1897

The experiment of substituting civilized methods for brute force as the means of settling international questions of right will thus be tried under the happiest auspices.

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