Veto Message
02/22/1895
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Rule VI of the civil-service rules is hereby amended by adding to the exceptions from examination in the departmental se...
No feature of our pension laws is so satisfactory and just as a fair allowance to the widows of our soldiers who have di...
A departure from this rule, even in aid of cases of hardship, can not fail to establish precedents inviting the abandonm...
There is a further objection to granting this pension.