Special Message
03/12/1896
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The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.
I am not willing, even by inaction, to be charged with acquiescence in what appears to be such an entire departure from ...
This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 22d ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, ...