Grover Cleveland: “I herewith return without my approval Senate bill No. 1421, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Weaver.'”

Our pension laws should deal with soldiers' widows.

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.

This requirement proceeds upon the assumption that the foreign relatives coming here are in every case, by reason of poverty, liable to become a public charge unless the immigrant is capable of their support.

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.