I return without approval House bill No. 2282, entitled 'An act to pension Mrs. Theodora M. Piatt.'
I should be glad to respond to these sentiments to the extent of approving this bill, but it is one of the misfortunes of public life and of...
When a park is established there, the island is no longer a defense in time of need.
Surely no one will seriously propose that a claim for pension should rest upon a conjecture as to what would have caused death if it had not...
I transmit herewith a report in relation thereto from the Secretary of State.
I retransmit herewith a convention for the surrender of criminals between the United States and the Republic of Guatemala.
As long as there is the least pretense of limiting the bestowal of pensions to disability or death in some way related to the incidents of m...
I return without approval House bill No. 19.
The temptation to relieve from contracts with the Government upon plausible application is, in my opinion, not sufficiently resisted.
I can see no fairness or justice to the Government in such a proposition.
I return without approval Senate bill No. 465, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William Sackman, sr.'
A second law for the same purpose is of course unnecessary.
The application for pension is fraudulent and should not be allowed.
I return without approval Senate bill No. 838, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mary Sullivan.'
The entire complexion of this case satisfies me that the claimant contracted no pensionable disability during his one hundred days of servic...
I believe the rejection of this claim was right and just upon its merits.
I can not believe upon the facts presented that an injury of the character alleged could have been sustained in the service and still permit...
The second enactment is of course entirely useless, and was evidently passed by mistake.
