Veto Message
08/13/1888
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It is difficult to understand why under the Constitution it should be necessary to submit proposed legislation to Executive scrutiny and app...
I regret that I am constrained to disapprove an important appropriation bill so near the close of the present session of Congress.
I hereby return without my approval House bill No. 8293.
I am advised by the Pension Bureau that the bill, if it becomes a law in its present form, would be inoperative.