"On the day of the funeral the Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed."
"Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended as follows: Include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: 6. In the Department of Agriculture: The chief of the dairy divi..."
"all of the lands acquired from the Alsea and other Indians by said agreement will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (Pacific standard time) on the 25th day of July, 1895, and not before, be op..."
"I hereby declare and make known that all of the lands acquired from the Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dakota Indians by the said agreement will...be open to settlement."
"GROVER CLEVELAND."
"Any person appointed from the appropriate register to the position of messenger, assistant messenger, watchman, or other subordinate position below the positions of clerk and copyist may at any time a..."
"The purpose of allotment is in danger of being defeated."
"I am convinced of the growing necessity, in this period of change in our relations with the Indians, of caution and certainty in the grants given to railroads to pass through Indian lands."
"There is no suggestion that the widow has died or remarried."
"If the beneficiary can justly claim a pension dating from her application to the Pension Bureau in 1890, the benefits accruing to her therefrom should not be superseded by this special legislation."
"If such proof is supplied, she would be entitled to a pension dating from July 14, 1890, which would be much more advantageous than the relief afforded by the bill herewith returned."