It is also impossible to connect the death with any incident of the soldier's military service.
I return without approval House bill No. 7162, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Martha McIlwain.'
I base my action upon the opinion, derived from an examination of the circumstances attending the death of the claimant's husband, that his ...
It is proposed by this bill to grant a pension to the beneficiary named as the widow of Thomas Connelly.
justice will be done in the case.
I should be sorry to be a party to a scheme permitting him to profit by the death of his patriotic son.
I am of the opinion that the investigation there should be fully completed before special legislation is resorted to.
There has been much testimony taken in this case, and a great deal of it is exceedingly contradictory.
I am entirely satisfied that all has been done in this case that the most liberal treatment demands.
I hereby return without approval House bill No. 7167, entitled 'An act for the relief of Mrs. Maria Hunter.'
I concur in the judgment of the Pension Bureau, which rejected the widow's claim for pension on the ground that 'the death of the soldier wa...
Although the deceased soldier held a high rank, I have no doubt his widow will receive ample justice through the instrumentality organized f...
I return herewith without approval House bill No. 424, entitled 'An act to pension Giles C. Hawley.'
The doubt in the case appears to relate to the dependence of the father upon his son at the time of his death.
This man was mustered into the service October 26, 1861.
It is very clear to me that the Pension Bureau properly rejected the widow's claim for pension.
There is no doubt that his disability existed to quite an extent at least before his enlistment.
I think upon all the facts presented the Pension Bureau properly rejected this claim, because there was no record of the injury and no satis...
