Grover Cleveland

I do not understand that the Congress intends to pass special acts in cases thus situated.

It is perfectly clear that the only pretexts for giving this claimant a pension are military service, old age, and poverty.

No convention whatever has been 'agreed to and ratified' by 'the President and Senate.'

The report is interesting alike to the people of the United States and to the subjects of Russia.

It will be gratifying to all who appreciate the generous and humane action of Congress in providing for the testimonials.

It is hereby further ordered that the following-described lands... be, and the same are hereby, restored to the public domain.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in the State of California, being part of the lands restored to the public domain by Executive order dated March 22, 1886, be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and set…

I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 2173, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin Obekiah.'

It is entirely certain that the special act now presented to me would give the claimant no new rights or additional benefits.

To the Senate of the United States: In response to the resolution of the Senate of the 21st ultimo, calling for certain correspondence touching the construction of a ship canal through Nicaragua, I transmit herewith a report from the…

I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State, in answer to the resolution of the Senate of December 8, 1886, relative to the claims of Antonio Pelletier and A. H. Lazare against the Republic of Hayti.

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a draft of declaration explanatory of Articles II and IV of the convention for the protection of submarine cables.

The matter is presented for the consideration of Congress.

I transmit herewith a communication of the 7th ultimo from the Secretary of the Interior.

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a letter from the Secretary of State, inclosing statement of customs duties levied by foreign nations upon the produce and manufactures of the United States.

I nominate James C. Matthews, of New York, to be recorder of deeds in the District of Columbia, in the place of Frederick Douglass, resigned.

I have ventured, therefore, in view of the demonstrated fitness of this nominee, to again submit this nomination to the Senate for confirmation.

Mr. Matthews has now been in occupancy of the office to which he was nominated for more than four months.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, in relation to the invitation from Her Britannic Majesty to this Government to participate in an international exhibition which is to be held at Adelaide, South Australia, in 1887.

The cruel treatment of inoffensive Chinese has, I regret to say, been repeated in some of the far Western States and Territories.

The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

The moral right and duty of the United States to assist in all proper ways in the maintenance of its integrity is obvious.

A convention between the United States and certain other powers for the protection of submarine cables was signed at Paris on March 14, 1884, and has been duly ratified and proclaimed by this Government.

Nothing can be accomplished, however, in the direction of this much-needed reform unless the subject is approached in a patriotic spirit of devotion to the interests of the entire country.

Good government has for its objects the protection of every person within its care in the greatest liberty consistent with the good order of society.