Veto Message to the House of Representatives
03/01/1901
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The sum of $200,000 is hereby allotted and set apart from the appropriation made for the benefit and government of Puert...
Under the circumstances of this case I do not feel at liberty to approve the bill.
To single out for payment a few claims of this large class to the exclusion of all others would, in my judgment, be unju...
Any authority heretofore exercised in the premises by the Naval Officer in command is hereby ratified as if said power t...