Veto Message
06/22/1886
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The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.
I do hereby, in virtue of the authority vested in me by section 3 of the act of August 19, 1890, and by section 2 of the...
I do hereby revoke my said proclamation of January 26, 1888.
This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.