EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 19, 1899_.

_To the Senate of the United States_:


I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 708, entitled "An act
for the relief of Albert E. Redstone."

My objections to the bill are:

First. It assumes that the beneficiary, Albert E. Redstone, sustained a
loss by the incorporation of his preemption claim within the limits of
the Sierra Forest Reserve. This reserve was established by executive
proclamation of February 14, 1893 (27 Stats., 1059), issued under
section 24 of the act of March 8, 1891 (26 Stats., 1103), and contains
the following saving clause for the protection of existing claims under
the public land laws:

* * * Excepting from the force and effect of this proclamation all lands
which may have been, prior to the date hereof, embraced in any legal
entry or covered by any lawful filing duly of record in the proper
United States Land Office, or upon which any valid settlement has been
made pursuant to law, and the statutory period within which to make
entry or filing of record has not expired; * * *


Mr. Redstone did not sustain any loss by the creation of this reserve,
because his rights, if he had any at that time, were fully recognized
and protected by this provision in the proclamation.