Political Quotes

It is also ordered,That no person shall be admitted into any place not excepted from examination by the civil-service rules in any of the classes above designated until he shall have passed an appropriate examination prepared by the United States Civil Service Commission and his eligibility has been certified to this office by said Commission.

I do hereby declare, proclaim, and make known that the Executive order of June 22, 1890, making said reservations of lands in the Territory of Alaska, therein particularly described, is hereby modified.

I regret that I am constrained to disapprove an important appropriation bill so near the close of the present session of Congress.

I do not think there should be anything done with this valuable property which will in the least embarrass the Government in its sale.