I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4797.

I am inclined to think it would have been a fortunate thing if in this case it could have been demonstrated that a man could thrive so well with the chronic diarrhea for fifty-two years as its existence in the case of this good old…

I can not think that such a wholesome provision of law... should be modified upon the facts presented in this case.

I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due to his military service.

The evidence of disability from the cause alleged is weak, to say the most of it.

This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary.

It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this soldier.

I am entirely unable to see how the injuries are related to the claimant's army service.

The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four years ago.

I am entirely satisfied that the public building provided for in this bill is not immediately necessary.

Entertaining this belief, I am constrained to withhold my signature from this bill.

I think little, if any, more infirmity than is usually found in men of the age of the claimant.

The Government ought not to be called upon to insure against the quarrelsome propensities of its individual soldiers.

None of us are entitled to credit for extreme tenderness and consideration toward those who fought their country's battles.

he surely was not in the service nor in the performance of any military duty at the time of the injury

the effort to attribute his death by apoplexy to the existence of hernia ought not to be successful.

The beneficiary named is the widow of Rowley S. McKay.

There is no merit whatever in this case.