Veto Message
08/09/1888
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This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 22d ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, ...
The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.
It is ordered,That the officers and employees in or under this office included within the provisions of the civil-servic...