Grover Cleveland

To the Congress: I transmit herewith copies of certain dispatches lately received from our minister at Hawaii, together with copies of the inclosures which accompanied such dispatches.

I transmit herewith, for the information of Congress, a communication from the Secretary of State, covering the report of the Director of the Bureau of the American Republics for the year 1893.

To the Congress:I transmit herewith two dispatches received a few days ago from our minister at Hawaii.

I transmit herewith copies of dispatches received from our minister to Hawaii after the arrival of those copies which accompanied my message of the 20th instant.

I also inclose, for the information of Congress, copies of reports and a copy of an order just received by the Secretary of the Navy from Rear-Admiral Irwin, commanding our naval forces at Honolulu.

I hereby return without my approval House bill No. 3289.

It seems absolutely certain that within a few years a great volume of shipping will extend to that location, which would be seriously embarrassed by such obstruction.

It seems to me that the language of the bill under consideration...is equivalent to a new grant to that company.

It is certainly very questionable whether piers should be permitted at all in the North River at the point designated for the location of this bridge.

I transmit herewith dispatches received yesterday from our minister at Hawaii.

The objection to piers in the river for the purpose of supporting bridges is in any event so serious that...should not in such an indirect manner as is done by this bill be applied to a like structure at Twenty-third street.

At the same time, it is a plain dictate of wisdom and expediency that the commerce of the river be not unnecessarily interfered with by bridges or in any other manner.

I fully concur in the objections made to this bill by the officers having charge of the public lands.

I am convinced that such a relaxation of our existing land laws as is contemplated by the bill under consideration would not be in the interest of good administration.

I return without my approval House bill No. 71.

In transmitting certain correspondence with my message dated December 18, 1893, I withheld a dispatch from our present minister, numbered 3 and dated November 16, 1893, and also a dispatch from our former minister, numbered 70 and dated…

Inasmuch as the contents of the dispatch of November 16, 1893, are referred to in the dispatches of a more recent date, now sent to Congress, and inasmuch as there seems no longer to be sufficient reason for withholding said dispatch, a…

The dispatch numbered 70 and dated October 8, 1892, above referred to, is still withheld for the reason that such a course still appears to be justifiable and proper.

To test fitness for the classified departmental service there shall be a clerk-copyist examination and such supplementary and special examinations as the Commission may provide to meet the special requirements of the service.

It is cause for congratulation that watchfulness and care and fidelity to its purposes are all that are necessary to insure to the Government and our people all the benefits which its inauguration promised.

It will hardly do to say that the States and Territories who are the recipients of these large gifts may be trusted to do justice to its citizens.

I regard the cause of civil service reform as so firmly established and its value so fully demonstrated.

The loyal States should not be paid the large sums of money promised them by this bill because they were loyal and other States were not.

A government is not only kind, but performs its highest duty when it restores to the citizen taxes unlawfully collected.

I believe that this appropriation of the public funds is not within the constitutional power of the Congress.