Grover Cleveland: “It seems to me it would establish a very bad precedent to allow a pension upon the facts developed in this case.”

An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.'

The ability to read and write, as required in this bill, in and of itself affords, in my opinion, a misleading test of contented industry and supplies unsatisfactory evidence of desirable citizenship or a proper apprehension of the…

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.

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…