Grover Cleveland: “No convention whatever has been 'agreed to and ratified' by 'the President and Senate.'”

There is a further objection to granting this pension.

I have not thought it compatible with the public interest that the correspondence referred to in the resolution should be communicated pending the public and exhaustive investigation about to be instituted.

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

To the Senate of the United States: In response to the resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1897, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State.