It is certainly not a cause of regret if by legislation of this character he is afforded a means by which he may better protect himself against imposition.

I should doubtless feel constrained to interpose Executive dissent.

There is certainly no industry better entitled to the incidental advantages which may follow this legislation than our farming and dairy interests.

The object of the bill which I have approved is to extend the limit of the cost to $80,000 and to make the additional appropriation to reach that sum.

Attention is called to the existence of this excess of appropriation and the suggestion made that it be returned to the Treasury.

I herewith return without my approval Senate bill No. 1421, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Weaver.'

I think it should be sustained; and its correctness is somewhat strengthened by the fact that the claimant continued in active service for more than a year after his alleged sickness.

I am sure that in no case except in an application for pension would an attempt be made in the circumstances here developed to attribute death from apoplexy to a wound in the knee received nineteen years before the apoplectic attack.

To grant a pension in this case would clearly contravene the present policy of the Government.

I am unable to discover how any different determination could have been reached.

I return without approval House bill No. 9106, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Rachel Barnes.'

I have approved House bill No. 4335.

I find no medical testimony referred to which with any distinctness charges death to the wound.

The trouble and expense incurred by the Pension Bureau to ascertain the truth and to deal fairly by this claimant, and the entire absence of any suspicion of bias against the claim in that Bureau, ought to give weight to its determination.

It is hardly possible that the bill now before me is intended to authorize an additional bridge between the two towns named.

My approval of the bill is withheld for this reason and in order to prevent an unnecessary and confusing multiplicity of laws.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 63.

To the Senate of the United States: In further response to the Senate resolutions of the 10th of May and 10th of July, 1886, touching the seizure and detention of American vessels in Canadian waters, I transmit herewith a letter from the…