Grover Cleveland: “I am not prepared either to gratuitously set at naught two determinations of the Pension Bureau...”

It appears that terms of court are now held at four different places within the eastern judicial district of Texas.

I transmit herewith a communication from the Secretary of State, covering the report of the joint commission on behalf of the United States and Great Britain, dated December 31, 1896, relative to the preservation of the fisheries in waters…

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.

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