Special Message
01/16/1896
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This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4526, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jonathan Scott.'
I only discharge a duty to our people when I interpose my disapproval of the legislation proposed.
The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.