Second Annual Message
12/01/1878
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In response to the resolution of the Senate of June 21, 1879, I herewith transmit reports.
I submit the subject to your favorable consideration and recommend that a suitable appropriation be made to enable this ...
The most serious obstacle, however, to an improvement of the civil service, and especially to a reform in the method of ...
Whereas satisfactory evidence has been given to me by the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China that no discrim...