Grover Cleveland: “I return without approval Senate bill No. 835, entitled 'An act for the relief of Elisha Griswold.'”

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.

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

An act to amend an act entitled 'An act to repeal the timber-culture laws, and for other purposes.'

I anticipate that better and more uninterrupted commerce, through the plan suggested, between the great West and foreign ports, with the increase of national prosperity which must follow in its train, will not long escape American…