Grover Cleveland

The compulsory purchase and coinage of silver by the Government, unchecked and unregulated by business conditions and heedless of our currency needs, which for more than fifteen years diluted our circulating medium, undermined confidence…

I hereby declare and make known that all of the unallotted and unreserved lands acquired from the Nez Perce' Indians by said agreement will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon on the 18th day of November, 1895, and not before, be…

It is hereby ordered, That any vacancy in a consulate or commercial agency now or hereafter existing... shall be filled by a transfer or promotion from some other position under the Department of State.

Special Departmental Rule I is hereby amended by striking out from the list of places excepted from examination in all the Departments 'bookbinders.'

Hereafter compositors and pressmen will be appointed by competitive examination.

So much of Executive orders heretofore issued under General Rule III, section 2, clause (c), as provides for the appointment of compositors and pressmen by noncompetitive examination is hereby revoked.

I hereby direct the Secretary of the Interior to amend the classification of the Department of the Interior.

Transfers may be made as follows:

Provided, That appointments to positions at pension agencies shall not be charged to the apportionment.

Professional experts and special agents employed for short periods at per diem salaries and paid only when actually employed.

the President hereby makes and promulgates the following rule to cancel and be in lieu of Customs Rule V of the Revised Civil-Service Rules

To test fitness for admission to the classified service of the Government Printing Office, examinations of a practical character shall be provided by the Commission.

All vacancies, unless filled by promotion, transfer, or reappointment, shall be filled in the following manner:

I do hereby admonish all such citizens and other persons to abstain from every violation of the laws hereinbefore referred to.

I do hereby enjoin upon all officers of the United States charged with the execution of said laws the utmost diligence in preventing violations thereof.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described tracts of country in the Territory of Oklahoma be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from settlement and entry.

I direct that the diplomatic representatives of the United States in all foreign countries display the flags over their embassies and legations at half-mast for ten days.

On the day of the funeral the Executive Departments in the city of Washington be closed.

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.

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 opened to settlement

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 division.

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 after absolute appointment, if not…

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.

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.