Grover Cleveland said...

I am not willing, even by inaction, to be charged with acquiescence in what appears to be such an entire departure from ...

There is a further objection to granting this pension.

I anticipate that better and more uninterrupted commerce, through the plan suggested, between the great West and foreign...

A departure from this rule, even in aid of cases of hardship, can not fail to establish precedents inviting the abandonm...