Grover Cleveland: “I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 1290, entitled 'An act granting a pension to David W. Hamilton.'”

To the Senate:I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate of February 24, 1897, a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the claim of M. A. Cheek against the Siamese Government, with accompanying papers.

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

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.

I herewith return without approval House bill No. 1299, entitled 'An act to pension Harriet Woodbury, of Windsor, Vt.'