07/04/1886
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"The Government is not an almoner of gifts among the people, but an instrumentality by which the people's affairs should be conducted upon business principles, regulated by the public needs."
"Upon the whole it does not appear, as a business proposition, that the building proposed should be undertaken."
"I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 1162."
"I return herewith the bill (H. R. 367) to amend section 536 of the Revised Statutes of the United States."