Veto Message
07/08/1886
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The condition of affairs among the Five Civilized Tribes...has assumed such an aspect as to render it almost indispensab...
It is difficult to understand why under the Constitution it should be necessary to submit proposed legislation to Execut...
We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.
I only discharge a duty to our people when I interpose my disapproval of the legislation proposed.