Grover Cleveland: “recommend that appropriate legislation to fulfill that treaty promise of this Government be provided without further…”

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.

There is a further objection to granting this pension.

Our pension laws should deal with soldiers' widows.

I do hereby make known and proclaim that there is hereby reserved from entry or settlement and set apart as a public reservation all those certain tracts, pieces, or parcels of land.