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Show Roosevelt's Pardon Regulations. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 5. Governor Roosevelt has established a code of rules to govern his consideration aud determination of applications for pardons par-dons and commutations of sentence. He will not exercise exeeut ive clemency clemen-cy in behalf of a man who has been convicted of murdering or abusing his wife, nor will he pardon any habitual criminal. His mercy will be shown only to those whose sentence seems to have been .severe or whose commission of a crime was the result of inih'.enee. |