Either to allow necessary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of the appropriations required to keep them in operation, or to approve legislation which in official communications to Congress he has declared would be a violation of his constitutional duty.
Rutherford B. Hayes: “Either to allow necessary functions of the public service to be crippled or suspended for want of the appropriations…”
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