Grover Cleveland

But any person who has for three years last preceding served as a clerk in the office of the President of the United States may be transferred or appointed to any place in the classified service without examination.

Any person in the classified departmental service may be transferred and appointed to any other place therein upon the following conditions:

The hardship has in some cases been remedied by the action of the courts.

It is sufficient that I should call the earnest attention of Congress to the circumstance that the statute makes no provision whatever for the somewhat numerous class of Chinese persons who, retaining their Chinese subjection in some…

This anomalous feature of the act should be reformed as speedily as possible...

The supposition should not be indulged that Congress...intended to make its protection depend upon the performance of conditions which it was physically impossible to perform.

To the House of Representatives: In response to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th of March, relative to the employment of substitutes in the Department of State, I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State…

I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of the Interior and the accompanying report, submitted by the governor of Alaska in compliance with section 5 of the act of May 17, 1884, entitled 'An act providing a civil government for…

The matter is commended to the favorable consideration of Congress.

I transmit herewith a copy of the reply of the Attorney-General to the letter of the Secretary of State of December 15, 1885.

This scheme for a reform in the methods of administering the Government is no longer an experiment.

This cause is commended to the liberal care and jealous protection of the Congress.

Wherever this reform has gained a foothold it has steadily advanced in the esteem of those charged with public administrative duties.

To the House of Representatives: In answer to the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 15th of February last, calling upon the Secretary of State for copies of all the correspondence relating to the claims of certain…

to authorize the purchase of a tract of land near Salem, Oreg., for the use of the Indian training school.

The subject is recommended to the favorable consideration and action of Congress.

To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate in executive session of the 27th of January, I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State and the papers accompanying it, relating to the…

I return herewith without approval, and with a statement of my objections thereto, Senate bill No. 150.

Every possible question that can be raised, or at least that ought to be raised, in any suit relating to these lands has been determined by the highest judicial authority in the land.

Safety lies in noninterference by Congress with matters which should be left to judicial cognizance;

If a law of Congress could, in the manner contemplated by the bill, change, under the Constitution, the existing rights of any of the parties claiming interests in these lands, it hardly seems that any new questions could be presented to…

It certainly seems to be such a transfer and relinquishment of all interests in the land mentioned on the part of the United States as to relieve the Government from any further concern therein.

If it be true that these are public lands, the declaration that they are so by enactment is entirely unnecessary;

I am constrained to interpose an objection to a measure which proposes to suspend general and wholesome laws for the purpose of granting what appears to me to be an undeserved gratuity.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the consideration of Congress, the report of the National Board of Health for the year 1885.