Veto Message
02/25/1889
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I do not think there should be anything done with this valuable property which will in the least embarrass the Governmen...
This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I anticipate that better and more uninterrupted commerce, through the plan suggested, between the great West and foreign...
I am constrained to withhold my approval of the bill under consideration.