Veto Message
06/21/1888
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
We can not view the pending conflict without considering...our inevitably close relations to it.
The civil-service rules as revised May 6, 1896, are hereby amended as follows.
I do hereby revoke my said proclamation of January 26, 1888.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4526, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jonathan Scott.'