Grover Cleveland: “The Government itself is under bond to the American people that in the exercise of its functions and powers it will deal…”

No feature of our pension laws is so satisfactory and just as a fair allowance to the widows of our soldiers who have died from causes attributable to their army service.

There is a further objection to granting this pension.

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 constrained to withhold my approval of the bill under consideration.