Grover Cleveland: “His claim is not based upon any wound or injury, but he alleges that he contracted chronic diarrhea or dysentery while…”

I return herewith without my approval House bill No. 9469.

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, submitting a list of the claims filed in the Department of State by citizens of the United States against Spain.

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.

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.