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Grover Cleveland: I have not approved the bill.

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Pocket Veto Message - An Act to Increase the Pension of Caroline A. Hough, Widow of Brigadier-General John Hough

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I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of the 6th ultimo, a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied by copies of correspondence concerning the arrest, imprisonment, trial, and condemnation to perpetual…

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Jan 13, 1897

I am constrained to withhold my approval of the bill under consideration.

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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.

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