Grover Cleveland

The multiplication of these structures involves not only the appropriations made for their completion, but great expense in their care and preservation thereafter.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 763, entitled 'An act for the erection of a public building at Sioux City, Iowa.'

Nor should the door be opened to applications of this kind.

I am unable to see how any other conclusion could have been reached.

I hereby return without approval House bill No. 1990, entitled 'An act granting a pension to John Hunter.'

I find upon examination that United States courts are sometimes held at Sioux City, but that they have been thus far held in the county courthouse without serious inconvenience and without any expense to the Government.

The facts here presented come so far short of furnishing a satisfactory excuse for his delay.

In my judgment the number of public buildings should not at this time be increased unless a greater public necessity exists therefor than is apparent in this case.

I am of the opinion that the expenditure of public money for such a purpose should depend upon the necessity of such a building for public uses.

The information furnished by the report of the committee... absolutely fails to connect the death of Commodore Marchand with any incident of his naval service.

It does not appear to have been of so distinguished a character, nor are the circumstances of his widow alleged to be such, as to render a gratuity justifiable.

The necessity of such supplemental legislation is so obvious that I hope it will receive the immediate action of the Congress.

I have concluded to approve the same upon the assurance of those actively promoting its passage that another bill shall at once be introduced to cover the defect above referred to.

I herewith transmit a letter from the Secretary of State, with an accompanying paper, in relation to the distribution of the fund appropriated by the act of April 20, 1882, for the relief of the captain, owners, officers, and crew of the…

It was not possible for this Government to ask his surrender, but the Japanese Government of its own motion caused his delivery as a friendly act.

His claim is not based upon any wound or injury, but he alleges that he contracted chronic diarrhea or dysentery while in the service.

I am not prepared either to gratuitously set at naught two determinations of the Pension Bureau...

I return herewith without approval Senate bill No. 1726, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Augustus Field Stevens.'

This bill is not based upon substantial merits.

I am convinced that the difficulty alleged by this applicant had its origin in causes existing prior to his enlistment.

The pension should not have been granted, and it was withdrawn.

The fact that fourteen years elapsed after he claimed to have been injured by a fall from a wagon before he discovered that enlargement of the lungs and heart was his real difficulty is calculated to at least raise a doubt as to the…

I hereby return without approval bill No. 1406.

It is proposed by this bill to grant a pension to the claimant for the alleged loss of sight in one eye and the impairment of the vision of the other.

It was so satisfactorily proven that the disease which indirectly caused the death of the claimant's husband was not contracted in the service.