I herewith transmit a letter from the Secretary of State, with an accompanying paper, in relation to the distribution of the fund appropriated by the act of April 20, 1882, for the relief of the captain, owners, officers, and crew of the…

I am not prepared either to gratuitously set at naught two determinations of the Pension Bureau...

I return herewith without approval Senate bill No. 1726, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Augustus Field Stevens.'

His claim is not based upon any wound or injury, but he alleges that he contracted chronic diarrhea or dysentery while in the service.

This bill is not based upon substantial merits.

It is proposed by this bill to grant a pension to the claimant for the alleged loss of sight in one eye and the impairment of the vision of the other.

The pension should not have been granted, and it was withdrawn.

The fact that fourteen years elapsed after he claimed to have been injured by a fall from a wagon before he discovered that enlargement of the lungs and heart was his real difficulty is calculated to at least raise a doubt as to the…

It was so satisfactorily proven that the disease which indirectly caused the death of the claimant's husband was not contracted in the service.

I hereby return without approval bill No. 1406.

I am convinced that the difficulty alleged by this applicant had its origin in causes existing prior to his enlistment.

It seems to me that a stronger case than this should be presented to justify the passage of a special act.

I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 1290, entitled 'An act granting a pension to David W. Hamilton.'

I neither believe it to be a duty nor a kindness to the worthy citizens for whose benefit our scheme of pensions was provided to permit the diversion of the nation's bounty to objects not within its scope and purpose.

I find nothing in my examination of the facts connected with the case which impeaches the value of the surgeon's certificate upon which the adverse action of the Pension Bureau was predicated.

There is not a particle of proof or a fact stated either in the committee's report or the records in the Pension Bureau, so far as they are brought to my notice, tending to show that the claimant was in hospital or under medical care a…

A wound from a shell causing the person injured to be 'disabled ever since' usually results in hospital or medical treatment.

To the Senate of the United States: A bill which originated in the Senate, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Edward Ayers,' and numbered 363, is herewith returned without approval.