Grover Cleveland: “I can see no pretext for allowing a pension in this case.”

To the Senate:I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 24, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the claim of M. A. Cheek against the Siamese Government, with accompanying papers.

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.

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

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