Veto Message
04/29/1886
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The experiment of substituting civilized methods for brute force as the means of settling international questions of rig...
This government is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of May 9, 1896.
I have not approved the bill.