Veto Message
02/18/1887
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The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it.
Economy and the exaction of clear justification for the appropriation of public moneys by the servants of the people are...
I have not approved the bill.
I am advised by the Pension Bureau that the bill, if it becomes a law in its present form, would be inoperative.