I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 859, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charlotte O'Neal.'
The records of the War Department fail to show that there was a colonel of the Twenty-sixth Indiana Regiment named Richa...
This case demonstrates the means employed in attempts to cheat the Government in applications for pensions--too often su...
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...
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.
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded October 2, ...
I adhere to the sentiments thus heretofore expressed.
It is a mistake to suppose that service pensions, such as are permitted by the second section of the bill under consider...
I think it may be said that at the close of the War of the Rebellion every Northern State and a great majority of Northe...
It is manifestly of the utmost importance that statutes which, like pension laws, should be liberally administered as me...
I can not believe that the vast peaceful army of Union soldiers... desire at this time and in the present exigency to be...
I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the House of the 24th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State.
He is totally unfit for the Invalid Corps or for any other military duty.
I withhold my assent from this bill because, if the facts before me... are true, the allowance of this claim would, in m...
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 und...
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 6825, entitled 'An act granting a pension to James R. Baylor.'
