I can not gather from the facts I have been able to collect concerning this appropriation that it is justified on any gr...
It is difficult to understand why under the Constitution it should be necessary to submit proposed legislation to Execut...
This bill is in many of its features far removed from a legitimate deficiency bill, and it contains a number of appropri...
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4526, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jonathan Scott.'
There certainly ought to be a strong presumption that the case was fairly and justly determined by the Bureau.
I am advised by the Pension Bureau that the bill, if it becomes a law in its present form, would be inoperative.
I only discharge a duty to our people when I interpose my disapproval of the legislation proposed.
Economy and the exaction of clear justification for the appropriation of public moneys by the servants of the people are...
I suppose to sustain a claim upon the indemnity bond given when the duplicate was issued in 1864 we should be prepared t...
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 900, entitled 'An act to provide for the payment of the claim of Willi...
The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it.
The bond directed to be given by this bill would afford the Government no protection, since it only provides against rep...
I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and trustwor...
It is quite plain that in fairness and justice no appropriation should be made in favor of the claimant.
As a legal proposition, the pensionable status of a soldier's widow, lost by her remarriage, can not be recovered by the...
Her pensionable relation to the Government as the widow of her deceased soldier husband, under any reasonable pension th...
I suppose no one would suggest the renewal of such pension during the lifetime of her second husband.
Legislation of this description is sure to establish a precedent which it will be difficult to disclaim, and which if fo...
