A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to disclose any pensionable disability.

I am satisfied that this case was properly disposed of by the Pension Bureau.

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a convention for the extradition of criminals between the United States of America and the Republic of Colombia.

I can not spell out any principle upon which the bounty of the Government is bestowed through the instrumentality of the flood of private pension bills that reach me.

This course of special legislation operates very unfairly.

I insist that the true soldier is a good citizen, and that he will be satisfied with generous, fair, and equal consideration for those who are worthily entitled to help.

The death of the son of the beneficiary is far from being satisfactorily established.

I can not see how the cause of death can be connected with his service or with the incapacity for which he was placed upon the retired list.

I think the action of the Bureau was correct.

I have considered the pension list of the Republic a roll of honor, bearing names inscribed by national gratitude, and not by improvident and indiscriminate almsgiving.

GROVER CLEVELAND

Ordered, That noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the following designated places in the classified departmental service be, and are hereby, authorized.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied with selected correspondence relating to foreign affairs for the year 1887.

If he had refrained from interference, he would have saved himself and performed to the utmost his military duty.

His presence on the boat was in the line of duty, but he had no charge of the rest of the men.

The death of this soldier was not the result of his military service.

I discover no reason of any substance why this pension should be increased.

He was discharged for a disability which, to say the least of it, certainly had no relation to his military service.