Grover Cleveland

Public feeling on the Pacific Coast excited in favor of it, and situation is critical.

I transmit with this, in paraphrase of the cipher, a copy of the said dispatch.

I now transmit a report of the Secretary of State, with accompanying correspondence, on that subject.

This bill directs the Postmaster-General to credit to the beneficiary therein named, who is the postmaster at Buena Vista, in the State of Colorado, the sum of $225, being post-office funds forwarded by him to the deposit office at Denver…

It is plain, therefore, that the bill herewith returned ought not to become a law unless it is proposed to duplicate the credit therein mentioned.

The above proposed amendment is hereby approved.

Any intermediary between the people and their Government or the least delegation of the care and protection the Government owes to the humblest citizen makes the boast of free institutions a glittering delusion.

The existing situation is injurious to the health of our entire body politic.

Departure from the lines there laid down is failure.

It is the people's cause.

The Government itself is under bond to the American people that in the exercise of its functions and powers it will deal with the body of our citizens in a manner scrupulously honest and fair and absolutely just.

Let us follow the way it points out; it will not mislead us.

Every worthy applicant should receive a pension based on just principles.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant.

The foregoing amendments are hereby approved.

Noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the following-designated places in the classified customs service are hereby authorized.

I do hereby designate and set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November instant, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer.

The foregoing amendment is hereby approved.

Ordered,That noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the following-designated places in the classified departmental service are hereby authorized.

Let us generously remember the poor and needy, so that our tribute of praise and gratitude may be acceptable in the sight of the Lord.

Let us give thanks for peace and for social order and contentment within our borders.

Constant thanksgiving and gratitude are due from the American people to Almighty God for His goodness and mercy.

It appears from the record furnished to me that they were rejected on the ground that the evidence is insufficient to connect the death cause or disability with the soldier's military service.

I return without approval House bill No. 2472, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Lydia A. Eaton.'

Upon the merits as the case now stands, and because of the mistake in describing the relationship of the beneficiary, this bill, I think, should not become a law.