Veto Message
02/28/1897
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Such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination and certificat...
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.
The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.