Grover Cleveland

I return without approval House bill No. 8574, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sallie T. Ward, widow of the late W. T. Ward.'

Age and poverty do not themselves justify gifts of public money.

It does not seem to me that this case in its present condition should receive favorable consideration.

The husband of this beneficiary served about nine months in the Mexican War.

Whatever may be said of the incurrence of sunstroke in the Army, I find no proof that at the time he fell he was afflicted with vertigo.

There seems to be no satisfactory evidence that anything which occurred in his army service was the cause of his fall and consequent injury.

I return without approval House bill No. 9183, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William P. Riddle.'

No claim is made in any quarter that he incurred the least disability during this service.

Her advanced age and the honorable service of her son would make the allowance of a pension in her case, upon any fair and plausible justification, very gratifying.

I return without approval House bill No. 8761, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mrs. Anna Butterfield.'

It seems to me it would establish a very bad precedent to allow a pension upon the facts developed in this case.

This evidence ought not to be difficult to obtain.

I return without approval House bill No. 3521, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Manuel Garcia.'

It seems to me that if any use of this land is given to the city of Tacoma it should be with the proviso suggested by the Chief of Engineers, instead of the indefinite and restricted one incorporated in the bill.

I judge from an expression in the letter of the Chief of Engineers, made a part of the report of the committee of the House to which this bill was referred, that its original purpose was to absolutely transfer this reservation to the city…

The expediency of granting any right to the occupancy of this land is, in my opinion, very doubtful.

I return herewith the enrolled bill (S. 3303) amendatory of 'An act relating to postal crimes and amendatory of the statutes therein mentioned.'

The death of this valiant soldier and patriotic son of the Republic ... has nevertheless shocked the country and caused universal grief.

Someone with more intelligence than this ignorant colored woman concocted the scheme to gain this fraudulent pension.

No substitute shall hereafter be employed in any Department.

The checks remain in Leatherbury's possession until they were delivered by him to the special agent of the Pension Bureau upon the investigation.

I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of 11th April last, a report of the Secretary of State.

I call attention to the report of the Secretary of State and accompanying papers, relating to the convention in question.

To the Senate and House of Representatives..I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, accompanying the annual reports of the consuls of the United States on the trade and industries of foreign countries.

I transmit, with a view to its ratification, a convention between the United States and Mexico.