Special Message
01/07/1897
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It is quite plain that in fairness and justice no appropriation should be made in favor of the claimant.
I regret that I am constrained to disapprove an important appropriation bill so near the close of the present session of...
I have not approved the bill.
The ownership and management by the Government of penitentiaries...have at last to a slight extent been realized.