"I fully concur in the objections made to this bill by the officers having charge of the public lands."
"I return without my approval House bill No. 71."
"The dispatch numbered 70 and dated October 8, 1892, above referred to, is still withheld for the reason that such a course still appears to be justifiable and proper."
"In transmitting certain correspondence with my message dated December 18, 1893, I withheld a dispatch from our present minister, numbered 3 and dated November 16, 1893, and also a dispatch from our fo..."
"Inasmuch as the contents of the dispatch of November 16, 1893, are referred to in the dispatches of a more recent date, now sent to Congress, and inasmuch as there seems no longer to be sufficient rea..."
"To test fitness for the classified departmental service there shall be a clerk-copyist examination and such supplementary and special examinations as the Commission may provide to meet the special req..."
"The loyal States should not be paid the large sums of money promised them by this bill because they were loyal and other States were not."
"A government is not only kind, but performs its highest duty when it restores to the citizen taxes unlawfully collected."
"I regard the cause of civil service reform as so firmly established and its value so fully demonstrated."
"Any other theory cheapens and in a measure discredits a process which more than any other is a manifestation of sovereign authority."
"It is cause for congratulation that watchfulness and care and fidelity to its purposes are all that are necessary to insure to the Government and our people all the benefits which its inauguration pro..."