Grover Cleveland: “I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 2005, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mary J. Nottage.'”

The ability to read and write, as required in this bill, in and of itself affords, in my opinion, a misleading test of contented industry and supplies unsatisfactory evidence of desirable citizenship or a proper apprehension of the…

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

A radical departure from our national policy relating to immigration is here presented.

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.