I herewith transmit, in reply to the resolution of the Senate of the 11th instant, a copy of a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying documents, relative to the pending treaty with China.

Unless the Government is to be held as an insurer against injuries suffered by anyone in the military service, no matter how incurred, and also as guarantor of the good and peaceable behavior toward each other of the soldiers at all times…

If an American vessel should happen to have caught a cargo of fish at sea 100 miles distant from some Canadian port, from which there is railway communication to the United States, and should be denied the privilege of landing and shipping…

The people will hardly be deceived by their abandonment of the field of legislative action to meet in political convention.

Our government is the creation of the people, established to carry out their designs and accomplish their good.

Unnecessary taxation is unjust taxation.

They ask for bread and they are given a stone.

The military service and prison experience of the deceased were in no manner connected with his death.

I return without approval House bill No. 5593, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charles Walster.'

Upon a review of the evidence taken it appears to be well established that any disability of the beneficiary heretofore existing was not attributable to his military service.

I do not think these facts are proven or can be assumed.

I have to communicate the annexed copies of dispatches from our minister to China.

This case has been very exhaustively examined by the Pension Bureau upon the application for a pension filed there by the beneficiary named in this bill.

I do not think in the circumstances surrounding this case that the beneficiary should at this late day be permitted to impeach and set aside the medical certificate procured by himself and containing his own statements, upon which he…

It thus appears that even if this bill were approved there could be no rating, and the legislation would be of no advantage to the beneficiary named.

his case is certainly a pitiable one I am forced to the belief that the conclusions reached in 1879 upon his application, that his disease was contracted while absent without leave and that his disability was due to syphilis, were correct.

While this case is probably one where the exercise of generosity would be pleasant and most timely to the recipient, I can not think that such a precedent should be established.

There is no intimation that the death of the son sixteen years after the close of the war was caused or in any way related to his military service.