I return without approval Senate bill No. 2370, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sarah C. Anderson and children under 16 years of age.'

To allow a claim so lacking in merit would endanger discipline and invite irregularity and loose methods in a very important branch of the public service.

There seems to be an entire lack of testimony connecting in any reasonable way his death with any incident of his military service.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1762, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin A. Burtram.'

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1076.

I return the joint resolution without approval.

There is hardly room for the pretense that her first husband's death was due to his military service.

This bill does not give the name of the intended beneficiary.

I fail to find in it reasonably satisfactory proof that the disabilities upon which he now bases his claim for a pension were incurred in the military service.

I do not understand that this physician gives the least support to the theory that the wound for which this soldier was pensioned was in the slightest degree connected with his death.

The propriety and expediency of this appropriation should be left to legislative discretion.

I return without approval House bill No. 2233, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Bernard Carlin.'

I am of the opinion that a case is not presented in any of its aspects justifying a pension.

There seems to be no satisfactory evidence that anything which occurred in his army service was the cause of his fall and consequent injury.

The allegation or the presumption that it caused his fatal fall, it seems to me, is entirely unwarranted.

If this bill becomes a law, I am unable to see why, in fairness and justice, the widow of any officer of the grade of General Ward should not be allowed $50 a month.

Whatever may be said of the incurrence of sunstroke in the Army, I find no proof that at the time he fell he was afflicted with vertigo.

While it is the rule under general laws that two pensions shall not be paid to the same person, ... it may result that under the peculiar wording of this bill she would be entitled to both pensions.