The records of the War Department fail to show that there was a colonel of the Twenty-sixth Indiana Regiment named Richard O'Neal.
I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of that body of the 16...
This bill proposes to grant a pension to the beneficiary therein named as the widow of Richard O'Neal.
Of course these decisions were correct in law, in equity, and in morals.
If this is the officer whose widow is named in the bill, the proposition is to pension a widow of a soldier who, after a ten months' service...
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded October 2, 1886, in the harbor ...
I think it may be said that at the close of the War of the Rebellion every Northern State and a great majority of Northern counties and citi...
It is a mistake to suppose that service pensions, such as are permitted by the second section of the bill under consideration, are new to ou...
It is manifestly of the utmost importance that statutes which, like pension laws, should be liberally administered as measures of benevolenc...
I adhere to the sentiments thus heretofore expressed.
I can not believe that the vast peaceful army of Union soldiers... desire at this time and in the present exigency to be confounded with tho...
I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the House of the 24th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State.
I hereby return without approval House bill No. 7540, entitled 'An act to increase the pension of Franklin Sweet.'
I fully approve this action of the Bureau, and as this is much more favorable to a deserving soldier than his remedy under this bill, I am n...
I withhold my assent from this bill because, if the facts before me... are true, the allowance of this claim would, in my opinion, be a trav...
There is no doubt that justice will be done the claimant under the general law.
We do not believe him sick, or that he has been sick, but completely worthless.
I do not regard it at all strange that this claimant, encouraged by the ease with which special acts are passed, seeks relief through such m...
