I return without approval House bill No. 9183, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William P. Riddle.'
If this bill becomes a law, I am unable to see why, in fairness and justice, the widow of any officer of the grade of General Ward should no...
There seems to be no satisfactory evidence that anything which occurred in his army service was the cause of his fall and consequent injury.
I return without approval House bill No. 8574, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sallie T. Ward, widow of the late W. T. Ward.'
This is certainly the correct course to be pursued in this case, in view of the failure to state in the special bill the regiment and compan...
The husband of this beneficiary served about nine months in the Mexican War.
While it is the rule under general laws that two pensions shall not be paid to the same person, ... it may result that under the peculiar wo...
I am of the opinion that a case is not presented in any of its aspects justifying a pension.
Whatever may be said of the incurrence of sunstroke in the Army, I find no proof that at the time he fell he was afflicted with vertigo.
The allegation or the presumption that it caused his fatal fall, it seems to me, is entirely unwarranted.
I return without approval House bill No. 2233, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Bernard Carlin.'
Age and poverty do not themselves justify gifts of public money.
It does not seem to me that this case in its present condition should receive favorable consideration.
No claim is made in any quarter that he incurred the least disability during this service.
It seems to me it would establish a very bad precedent to allow a pension upon the facts developed in this case.
I return without approval House bill No. 8761, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mrs. Anna Butterfield.'
I return without approval House bill No. 3521, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Manuel Garcia.'
Her advanced age and the honorable service of her son would make the allowance of a pension in her case, upon any fair and plausible justifi...
