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.

Age and poverty do not themselves justify gifts of public money.

It does not seem to me that this case in its present condition should receive favorable consideration.

Her advanced age and the honorable service of her son would make the allowance of a pension in her case, upon any fair and plausible justification, very gratifying.

No claim is made in any quarter that he incurred the least disability during this service.

I return without approval House bill No. 8761, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mrs. Anna Butterfield.'

I return without approval House bill No. 3521, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Manuel Garcia.'

This evidence ought not to be difficult to obtain.

It seems to me it would establish a very bad precedent to allow a pension upon the facts developed in this case.

I judge from an expression in the letter of the Chief of Engineers, made a part of the report of the committee of the House to which this bill was referred, that its original purpose was to absolutely transfer this reservation to the city…

I return herewith the enrolled bill (S. 3303) amendatory of 'An act relating to postal crimes and amendatory of the statutes therein mentioned.'

It seems to me that if any use of this land is given to the city of Tacoma it should be with the proviso suggested by the Chief of Engineers, instead of the indefinite and restricted one incorporated in the bill.

The expediency of granting any right to the occupancy of this land is, in my opinion, very doubtful.

The death of this valiant soldier and patriotic son of the Republic ... has nevertheless shocked the country and caused universal grief.

No substitute shall hereafter be employed in any Department.

Someone with more intelligence than this ignorant colored woman concocted the scheme to gain this fraudulent pension.

The checks remain in Leatherbury's possession until they were delivered by him to the special agent of the Pension Bureau upon the investigation.

I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the Senate of 11th April last, a report of the Secretary of State.