05/18/1888
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"I hereby direct that the officers, clerks, and other employees of the United States Civil Service Commission shall be arranged in the following classes."
"This intercourse is still but partially developed, and if the amicable enterprise and wholesome rivalry between the two populations be not obstructed the promise of the future is full of the fruits of..."
"I believe that it supplies a satisfactory, practical, and final adjustment, upon a basis honorable and just to both parties, of the difficult and vexed question to which it relates."
"The treaty now submitted to you has been framed in a spirit of liberal equity and reciprocal benefits."