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.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1076.

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

I return the joint resolution without approval.

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

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

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

I return without approval House bill No. 9183, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William P. Riddle.'

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

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

I can find no principle or plausible pretext in this case which would not lead to granting a pension in any case of alleged disability arising from military service followed by suicide.

This is certainly the correct course to be pursued in this case, in view of the failure to state in the special bill the regiment and company to which the soldier belonged at the time of the incurrence of disability.

The husband of this beneficiary served about nine months in the Mexican War.

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.

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

I return without approval House bill No. 8574, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sallie T. Ward, widow of the late W. T. Ward.'

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

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.