Grover Cleveland: “I can not believe that such a departure as is proposed should be made from the just principles upon which pension…”

There is a further objection to granting this pension.

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

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

I transmit herewith, in response to the Senate resolution of December 21, 1896, addressed to the Secretary of State, a report of that officer covering a list of persons claiming to be citizens of the United States who have been arrested on…