Grover Cleveland: “I return without approval Senate bill No. 470, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Amanda F. Deck.'”

This requirement proceeds upon the assumption that the foreign relatives coming here are in every case, by reason of poverty, liable to become a public charge unless the immigrant is capable of their support.

I am unable to discover any principle which justifies her restoration to that relationship upon the death of her second husband.

A radical departure from our national policy relating to immigration is here presented.

I anticipate that better and more uninterrupted commerce, through the plan suggested, between the great West and foreign ports, with the increase of national prosperity which must follow in its train, will not long escape American…