Medical examinations failed to disclose any disability from the cause alleged.
I return without approval Senate bill No. 1017, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Stephen Schiedel.'
It seems hardly possible that he could have done this if he had been injured in the manner he alleges.
If, however, strict rights are to be relinquished and the liberality of the Government invoked, it should not be taxed beyond the limit of s...
Upon the verdict found, in the absence of insanity caused by any disability, it can hardly be claimed that his death was caused by his milit...
I can see no reason why additional ground should not be purchased for 'the proper accommodation and safety' of a large proportion of the pub...
The gross receipts of the office for the year ended June 30, 1887, are reported by the Postmaster-General at $5,337.
The permission to purchase this addition at a price per foot greatly in excess of that already owned by the Government seems so unnecessary,...
The proposed legislation would establish a very bad precedent.
The entire town within which Bar Harbor is situated contained in 1880 1,639 inhabitants, as appears by the census of that year.
I am decidedly of the opinion that if a public building is to be erected at this place, of which at present there appears to be no necessity...
There is no pretense that there is any need of a public building there except to accommodate the post-office.
I return herewith without approval House bill No. 4467, entitled an act for the erection of a public building at Bar Harbor, in Maine.
The utmost liberality to those who were in our Army hardly justifies a compensation by way of pension for injuries incurred in sport or past...
I am satisfied that the appropriation of $75,000 for a building at Youngstown is at present not justified.
There does not seem to be any governmental purpose to which such a building could be properly devoted except the accommodation of the post-o...
I return without approval Senate bill No. 835, entitled 'An act for the relief of Elisha Griswold.'
His claim based upon this injury was, in my opinion, properly rejected as having no connection with his military service.
