It was hardly necessary to provide in this bill that these lands might be leased "under such laws and regulations as may be hereafter prescribed by the legislature of said Territory" if the action of the legislature was to be forestalled and rendered nugatory by the immediate and unrestrained action of the officers constituted "a board for the leasing of said lands" pending such legislative consideration. These are inconsistencies which are not satisfactorily accounted for by the suggestion that the time that would elapse before the legislature could consider the subject would be important.
The protests I have received from numerous and influential citizens of the Territory indicate considerable opposition to this bill among those interested in the preservation and proper management of these school lands.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, April 21, 1896.
To the Senate:
I herewith return without my approval Senate bill No. 894, entitled "An act granting a pension to Nancy G. Allabach."
This bill provides for the payment of a pension of $30 a month to the beneficiary named as the widow of Peter H. Allabach.
This soldier served for nine months in the Army during the War of the Rebellion, having also served in the war with Mexico.
He was mustered out of his last service on the 23d day of May, 1863, and died on the 11th of February, 1892.
During his life he made no application for pension on account of disabilities. It is not now claimed that he was in the least disabled as an incident of his military service, nor is it alleged that his death, which occurred nearly twenty-nine years after his discharge from the Army, was in any degree related to such service.