Grover Cleveland: “I return without approval House bill No. 6718, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Starr.'”

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

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

The ability to read and write, as required in this bill, in and of itself affords, in my opinion, a misleading test of contented industry and supplies unsatisfactory evidence of desirable citizenship or a proper apprehension of the…

I am not willing, even by inaction, to be charged with acquiescence in what appears to be such an entire departure from the principle, as well as sentiment, connected with reasonable pension legislation.