Grover Cleveland: “I consider them in no proper sense as upon the files of the Department.”

I return herewith without my approval House bill No. 6902, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mrs. Mary A. Viel.'

I am unable to discover any principle which justifies her restoration to that relationship upon the death of her second husband.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith, for the information of the Congress, a communication from the Secretary of State, covering the report of the Director of the Bureau of the American Republics for the year 1896.

Her pensionable relation to the Government terminated with her remarriage.