This I deem sufficient reason why the proposed bill should not now become a law.
I return without approval Senate bill No. 1288, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Robert Holsey.'
I am satisfied that this conclusion of the Pension Bureau was correct.
My objection to this bill is that it is of no possible advantage to the beneficiary therein mentioned.
I am also thoroughly convinced, from examination of the case, that the claimant should not be pensioned.
The record of his service contains no mention of any disability.
Every relaxation of principle in the granting of pensions invites applications without merit and encourages those who fo...
A better reason is based upon the entire lack of any facts shown to exist which entitle the beneficiary named to a pensi...
The public money appropriated for pensions is the soldiers' fund, which should be devoted to the indemnification of thos...
I deem myself obliged to disapprove this bill on the ground that there is an almost complete failure to state any facts ...
I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 1584, entitled 'An act for the relief of Cornelia R. Schenck.'
I am so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals who in my view have no right or claim to t...
There does not appear on the records any evidence of disability.
I return without approval House bill No. 3624, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Fred. J. Leese.'
I find nothing in the facts presented to me which, in my opinion, justifies the reversal of the judgment of the Bureau a...
I return without approval Senate bill No. 2223, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Elizabeth S. De Krafft.'
There is such a failure to adjust existing laws to the new departure proposed by the bill as to greatly endanger the pub...
Nor should the door be opened to applications of this kind.
