Grover Cleveland

I make no reference to the fact stated in the committee's report suggesting the idea that the courage of the deceased soldier had been questioned.

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.'

I fail to discover how any other conclusion can be reached.

The cause of rejection is stated to be 'that the death cause (sunstroke) was not the result of the soldier's military service.'

There does not, however, seem to be a particle of evidence establishing that cause of death.

it seems quite clear to me that it would be extending the pension theory to an unwarrantable limit to hold the Government responsible for such an accident.

Whatever disability he had at the date of discharge he had when he enlisted.

I therefore venture, notwithstanding the persistent misrepresentations of my action in similar cases, to disapprove this bill.

I can not believe that this is a case in which a pension should be granted.

He is not entitled to dictate the rule by which his claim is to be adjusted.

I hardly think it will be seriously contended that the claimant has any legal claim against the United States.

This can not be right.

The claim mentioned in this bill grows out of alleged extra work done by the claimant in the construction of the post-office and courthouse building in the city of New York.

Every intelligent man should be charged with the knowledge that as a general rule commercial intercourse with the enemy is entirely inconsistent with a state of war.

I fail to appreciate the equities which entitle this claimant to further hearing.

I can not but regard the expressed demand on the part of China for a reexamination and renewed discussion of the topics so completely covered by mutual treaty stipulations as an indefinite postponement and practical abandonment of the…

It seems to me that some suggestions and recommendations may properly accompany my approval of this bill.

The experiment of blending the social habits and mutual race idiosyncrasies of the Chinese laboring classes with those of the great body of the people of the United States has been proved by the experience of twenty years, and ever since…

It is thus easy to learn how the joint desires and unequivocal mutual understanding of the two Governments were brought into articulated form in the treaty.

But while thus exercising our undoubted right in the interest of our people and for the general welfare of our country, justice and fairness seem to require that some provision should be made by act or joint resolution under which such…

The State of Kansas has been granted all the public land to which it can lay any legal or equitable claim under the law of 1862.

when the same is no longer used as a cemetery it should revert to the Government.

There should, in my opinion, be a provision that no bodies heretofore interred in this ground should be disturbed.

the description of the land which the railroad company is allowed the option of purchasing should be exact and certain for the interest of all concerned.