I return without approval Senate bill No. 470, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Amanda F. Deck.'

A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to disclose any pensionable disability.

The rejection of the widow's claim by the Pension Bureau on the ground that the cause of death was mainly intemperance was correct.

I can not believe that an injury was sustained such as was specified by the applicant in 1880 and that nothing was said of it either in the claim made in 1864 or in 1870.

This course of special legislation operates very unfairly.

I think the action of the Bureau was correct.

I can not spell out any principle upon which the bounty of the Government is bestowed through the instrumentality of the flood of private pension bills that reach me.

I can not see how the cause of death can be connected with his service or with the incapacity for which he was placed upon the retired list.

I insist that the true soldier is a good citizen, and that he will be satisfied with generous, fair, and equal consideration for those who are worthily entitled to help.

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a convention for the extradition of criminals between the United States of America and the Republic of Colombia.

I am satisfied that this case was properly disposed of by the Pension Bureau.

I have considered the pension list of the Republic a roll of honor, bearing names inscribed by national gratitude, and not by improvident and indiscriminate almsgiving.

The death of the son of the beneficiary is far from being satisfactorily established.

Ordered, That noncompetitive examinations to test fitness for the following designated places in the classified departmental service be, and are hereby, authorized.

GROVER CLEVELAND

If he had refrained from interference, he would have saved himself and performed to the utmost his military duty.

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, accompanied with selected correspondence relating to foreign affairs for the year 1887.

His presence on the boat was in the line of duty, but he had no charge of the rest of the men.