Veto Message
04/23/1888
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.
I do not think there should be anything done with this valuable property which will in the least embarrass the Governmen...
I return herewith without my approval House bill No. 9469.
The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.