Grover Cleveland: “If this is the officer whose widow is named in the bill, the proposition is to pension a widow of a soldier who, after a…”

A departure from this rule, even in aid of cases of hardship, can not fail to establish precedents inviting the abandonment of reasonable and justifiable pension theories.

The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

I indorse the recommendation of the Secretary of State that Congress authorize the printing of a special edition of 10,000 copies.

When we consider these provisions of the bill in connection with our long northern frontier and the boundaries of our States and Territories, often but an imaginary line separating them from the British dominions, and recall the friendly…