"I can see no pretext for allowing a pension in this case."
"This I deem sufficient reason why the proposed bill should not now become a law."
"I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 2005, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mary J. Nottage.'"
"I return without approval Senate bill No. 1288, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Robert Holsey.'"
"My objection to this bill is that it is of no possible advantage to the beneficiary therein mentioned."
"I am also thoroughly convinced, from examination of the case, that the claimant should not be pensioned."
"Every relaxation of principle in the granting of pensions invites applications without merit and encourages those who for gain urge honest men to become dishonest."
"A better reason is based upon the entire lack of any facts shown to exist which entitle the beneficiary named to a pension."
"The public money appropriated for pensions is the soldiers' fund, which should be devoted to the indemnification of those who in the defense of the Union have worthily suffered."
"I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 1584, entitled 'An act for the relief of Cornelia R. Schenck.'"
"There does not appear on the records any evidence of disability."
"I am so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals who in my view have no right or claim to the same."
"I return without approval House bill No. 3624, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Fred. J. Leese.'"
"I return without approval Senate bill No. 2223, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Elizabeth S. De Krafft.'"
"I find nothing in the facts presented to me which, in my opinion, justifies the reversal of the judgment of the Bureau and the Secretary of the Interior."
"The record of his service contains no mention of any disability."
"I deem myself obliged to disapprove this bill on the ground that there is an almost complete failure to state any facts that should entitle the claimant to a pension."
"There is such a failure to adjust existing laws to the new departure proposed by the bill as to greatly endanger the public service if this bill should not be amended or at once supplemented by additi..."
