Grover Cleveland

This proposed legislation does injustice to a very worthy pensioner who was on the pension roll at the time of the passage of the law.

I am convinced that the interposition by special enactment in the granting of pensions should be rare and exceptional.

She would thus lose for nearly two months the increase of pension already secured to her.

The policy of frequently reversing by special enactment the decisions of the Bureau invested by law with the examination of pension claims is exceedingly questionable.

These bills I have approved on the assumption that the claims were meritorious and that by the passage of the bills the Government has waived full proof of the facts.

It must be admitted that in some cases justice and equity can not be done nor the charitable tendencies of the Government in favor of worthy objects of its care indulged under fixed rules.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in the Territory of Idaho be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement.

In the absence of such officers the proposed legislation would be nugatory and inoperative.

I can not see that anything is gained by this legislation.

If the design of this bill is to restore to the city named the privileges permitted by the law of 1880, it seems to be entirely unnecessary.

But instead of exacting the bond from the medical colleges, such bond is required of 'every physician or surgeon before receiving such dead body.'

The measure under consideration does not with sufficient care specify and limit the officers and the parties who it is proposed to invest with discretion in the disposition of dead bodies.

The laws by which it is permitted should, in deference to a decent and universal sentiment, carefully guard against abuse and needless offense.

I herewith return Senate bill No. 349, entitled 'An act for the promotion of anatomical science and to prevent the desecration of graves,' without my approval.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country in the Territory of New Mexico, viz, all those portions of townships 29 north, ranges 14, 15, and 16 west of the New Mexico principal meridian, south of the San Juan River…

Under our form of government the value of labor as an element of national prosperity should be distinctly recognized.

If such a commission were fairly organized, the risk of a loss of popular support and sympathy resulting from a refusal to submit to so peaceful an instrumentality would constrain both parties to such disputes to invoke its interference…

The laboring man may well insist, with manly courage and as a right, upon the same recognition from those who make our laws as is accorded to any other citizen.

The establishment by Federal authority of such a bureau would be a just and sensible recognition of the value of labor and of its right to be represented in the departments of the Government.

A commission thus organized would have the advantage of being a stable body.

I am constrained to recommend to Congress legislation upon this serious and pressing subject.

The present condition of the relations between labor and capital is far from satisfactory.

I am satisfied, however, that something may be done under Federal authority to prevent the disturbances which so often arise from disputes between employers and the employed.

To the House of Representatives: I transmit herewith a report of the Secretary of State on the manufacture of milk sugar in Switzerland.

I transmit herewith the report of the Secretary of State on the subject.