Special Message
01/03/1888
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The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.
We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.
I am not willing, even by inaction, to be charged with acquiescence in what appears to be such an entire departure from ...
I have not approved the bill.