Grover Cleveland: “I return without approval Senate bill No. 2665, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charles J. Esty.'”

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

When we consider these provisions of the bill in connection with our long northern frontier and the boundaries of our States and Territories, often but an imaginary line separating them from the British dominions, and recall the friendly…

No feature of our pension laws is so satisfactory and just as a fair allowance to the widows of our soldiers who have died from causes attributable to their army service.

To the Senate of the United States: In response to the resolution of the Senate of February 4, 1897, I transmit a report from the Secretary of State.