Veto Message
02/20/1889
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We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.
Such vacancy may, subject to the approval of the Commission, be filled by appointment without examination and certificat...
I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 22d ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, ...
I have not approved the bill.