Veto Message
07/08/1886
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
The shocking features of the situation had been mitigated.
The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.
This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of May 9, 1896.