Veto Message
09/23/1888
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The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it.
The condition of affairs among the Five Civilized Tribes...has assumed such an aspect as to render it almost indispensab...
This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
The bond directed to be given by this bill would afford the Government no protection, since it only provides against rep...