Grover Cleveland

I answer in the negative.

If the existence of the commodity taxed and the profits of its manufacture and sale depend upon disposing of it to the people for something else which it deceitfully imitates, the entire enterprise is a fraud and not an industry.

Certain correspondence and accompanying documents in relation to the arrest and imprisonment at Paso del Norte by Mexican authority of A. K. Cutting, a citizen of the United States.

This legislation has awakened much interest among the people of the country.

To grant a pension in this case would clearly contravene the present policy of the Government.

I have approved House bill No. 4335.

The trouble and expense incurred by the Pension Bureau to ascertain the truth and to deal fairly by this claimant, and the entire absence of any suspicion of bias against the claim in that Bureau, ought to give weight to its determination.

I find no medical testimony referred to which with any distinctness charges death to the wound.

I return without approval House bill No. 9106, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Rachel Barnes.'

I am sure that in no case except in an application for pension would an attempt be made in the circumstances here developed to attribute death from apoplexy to a wound in the knee received nineteen years before the apoplectic attack.

I am unable to discover how any different determination could have been reached.

The object of the bill which I have approved is to extend the limit of the cost to $80,000 and to make the additional appropriation to reach that sum.

I think it should be sustained; and its correctness is somewhat strengthened by the fact that the claimant continued in active service for more than a year after his alleged sickness.

I herewith return without my approval Senate bill No. 1421, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Weaver.'

Attention is called to the existence of this excess of appropriation and the suggestion made that it be returned to the Treasury.

My approval of the bill is withheld for this reason and in order to prevent an unnecessary and confusing multiplicity of laws.

I conclude, therefore, that Congress in passing this bill acted in ignorance of the fact that a law providing for its objects and purposes was already on the statute book.

To the Senate of the United States: In further response to the Senate resolutions of the 10th of May and 10th of July, 1886, touching the seizure and detention of American vessels in Canadian waters, I transmit herewith a letter from the…

I return without approval Senate bill No. 63.

It is hardly possible that the bill now before me is intended to authorize an additional bridge between the two towns named.

I transmit herewith reports from the heads of the several Executive Departments of the Government.

To the Senate of the United States: In response to the resolutions of the Senate dated respectively May 10 and July 10, 1886, touching alleged seizures and detentions of vessels of the United States in British North American waters, I…

I transmit herewith a communication of 3d instant, with inclosures, from the Secretary of the Interior, recommending legislative authority for the use of funds from appropriation, Sioux, etc., 1887, for the subsistence of certain Northern…

I am satisfied that the present necessity for this building is not urgent, and that something may be gained by a delay which will demonstrate more fully the public needs.

The necessity to the Government of a proper place to hold its courts is the only consideration which should have any weight in determining upon the propriety of expending the money which will be necessary to erect the proposed new building.