Grover Cleveland: “I can not see that it was such a result of military service as to entitle the applicant to a pension.”

all extraordinary occasion requires the Senate of the United States to convene at the Capitol

To the Senate of the United States: In response to the resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1897, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State.

Our pension laws should deal with soldiers' widows.

I transmit herewith, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of January 23, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies of the correspondence therein requested, relating to the Nicaraguan Canal or the Maritime Canal…