Special Message
12/20/1885
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We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.
No modification of the existing regulations shall be made without the approval of the Civil Service Commission.
I do hereby revoke my said proclamation of January 26, 1888.
I do not think there should be anything done with this valuable property which will in the least embarrass the Governmen...