I hereby declare and make known that all of the lands acquired from the Yankton tribe of Sioux or Dakota Indians by the said agreement will...be open to settlement.

all of the lands acquired from the Alsea and other Indians by said agreement will, at and after the hour of 12 o'clock noon (Pacific standard time) on the 25th day of July, 1895, and not before, be opened to settlement

Special Departmental Rule No. I is hereby amended as follows: Include among the places excepted from examination therein the following: 6. In the Department of Agriculture: The chief of the dairy division.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

Any person appointed from the appropriate register to the position of messenger, assistant messenger, watchman, or other subordinate position below the positions of clerk and copyist may at any time after absolute appointment, if not…

The purpose of allotment is in danger of being defeated.

I am convinced of the growing necessity, in this period of change in our relations with the Indians, of caution and certainty in the grants given to railroads to pass through Indian lands.

If the beneficiary can justly claim a pension dating from her application to the Pension Bureau in 1890, the benefits accruing to her therefrom should not be superseded by this special legislation.

There is no suggestion that the widow has died or remarried.

I do not suppose it was intended that a double pension should be allowed.

If such proof is supplied, she would be entitled to a pension dating from July 14, 1890, which would be much more advantageous than the relief afforded by the bill herewith returned.

The rights and interests of the Indians are important in every view and should be scrupulously protected.

It is entirely clear that the interests of florists would be badly served by a corporation confined to the furtherance of garden culture.

If this deserter is to be allowed an honorable discharge, I do not see why every deserter should not be absolved from the consequences of his unfaithfulness.

The effect of this bill if it should become a law would be to allow the beneficiary not only a pensionable status, but arrears of pay and clothing allowances up to the date of his desertion.

The record of the War Department on the subject of this soldier's separation from the Army is absolutely correct as it stands.

It seems to me that the provisions of this bill amount to a legislative reversal of the judgment of a regularly constituted court and a legislative pardon of the offense of which this soldier was convicted.

To the Senate and House of Representatives: I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, a communication from the Secretary of State, covering the report of the Director of the Bureau of the American Republics for the year…