I think little, if any, more infirmity than is usually found in men of the age of the claimant.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4797.
I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due ...
I am entirely unable to see how the injuries are related to the claimant's army service.
The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four y...
I am inclined to think it would have been a fortunate thing if in this case it could have been demonstrated that a man c...
I can not think that such a wholesome provision of law... should be modified upon the facts presented in this case.
The delay of twenty-one years in presenting the claim for pension certainly needs explanation.
The Government ought not to be called upon to insure against the quarrelsome propensities of its individual soldiers.
There seems to be an entire absence of proof of this important fact.
The evidence of disability from the cause alleged is weak, to say the most of it.
Entertaining this belief, I am constrained to withhold my signature from this bill.
This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary.
I am entirely satisfied that the public building provided for in this bill is not immediately necessary.
It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this ...
His disability from army service should be conceded and his death at some time and in some manner may well be presumed; ...
The fact that the claim of the beneficiary has never been presented to the pension Bureau influences in some degree my a...
This pension should not be allowed.
