Grover Cleveland: “The multiplication of these structures involves not only the appropriations made for their completion, but great expense…”

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 transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, covering the report of the joint commission on behalf of the United States and Great Britain, dated December 31, 1896, relative to the preservation of the fisheries in waters…

I indorse the recommendation of the Secretary of State that Congress authorize the printing of a special edition of 10,000 copies.

I am constrained to withhold my approval of the bill under consideration.