Third Annual Message
11/30/1879
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Competitive examinations in aid of impartial appointments and promotions have been conducted for some years past in seve...
Whereas satisfactory evidence has been given to me by the Government of His Majesty the Emperor of China that no discrim...
The most serious obstacle, however, to an improvement of the civil service, and especially to a reform in the method of ...
We hold it to be an incontrovertible principle that the Government of the United States may, by means of physical force,...