Grover Cleveland: “This pension should not be allowed.”

I transmit a report from the Secretary of State, submitting a list of the claims filed in the Department of State by citizens of the United States against Spain.

I return herewith without my approval House bill No. 9469.

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

The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.