"The delay of twenty-one years in presenting the claim for pension certainly needs explanation."
"It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this soldier."
"The Government ought not to be called upon to insure against the quarrelsome propensities of its individual soldiers."
"The evidence of disability from the cause alleged is weak, to say the most of it."
"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 think little, if any, more infirmity than is usually found in men of the age of the claimant."
"This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary."
"Entertaining this belief, I am constrained to withhold my signature from this bill."
"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 existen..."
"I am entirely unable to see how the injuries are related to the claimant's army service."
"I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4797."
"There seems to be an entire absence of proof of this important fact."
"I am entirely satisfied that the public building provided for in this bill is not immediately necessary."
"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."
"I can not think that such a wholesome provision of law... should be modified upon the facts presented in this case."
"It seems that this claim was not definitely passed upon."
"There does not appear to be any medical testimony to support the claim thus made by the widow."
"The fact that the claim of the beneficiary has never been presented to the pension Bureau influences in some degree my action in withholding my approval of this bill."
