Grover Cleveland: “I transmit herewith, for approval and ratification, a provisional agreement lately entered into between the Government…”

Our pension laws should deal with soldiers' widows.

Though it seems to be clear that the consul-general should have professional aid in such investigation, that matter, together with the selection of the particular persons to act with him, properly devolves upon my successor in office.

Her pensionable relation to the Government terminated with her remarriage.

I am unable to discover any principle which justifies her restoration to that relationship upon the death of her second husband.