Veto Message
06/22/1886
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The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.
I have not approved the bill.
I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and trustwor...
Our people exhibit a patriotic disposition which entitles them to demand...faithful and unselfish service in their behal...