No facts are presented to me which entitle it to charitable consideration.
This claimant's application for pension is now pending in the Pension Bureau, and has been sent to a special examiner for the purpose of tak...
I suppose that every army ailment does not necessarily result in death or disability.
I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 1584, entitled 'An act for the relief of Cornelia R. Schenck.'
There does not appear on the records any evidence of disability.
A better reason is based upon the entire lack of any facts shown to exist which entitle the beneficiary named to a pension.
I am so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals who in my view have no right or claim to the same.
I am also thoroughly convinced, from examination of the case, that the claimant should not be pensioned.
I return without approval House bill No. 3624, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Fred. J. Leese.'
I return without approval Senate bill No. 2223, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Elizabeth S. De Krafft.'
I find nothing in the facts presented to me which, in my opinion, justifies the reversal of the judgment of the Bureau and the Secretary of ...
Every relaxation of principle in the granting of pensions invites applications without merit and encourages those who for gain urge honest m...
The record of his service contains no mention of any disability.
The public money appropriated for pensions is the soldiers' fund, which should be devoted to the indemnification of those who in the defense...
I deem myself obliged to disapprove this bill on the ground that there is an almost complete failure to state any facts that should entitle ...
My objection to this bill is that it is of no possible advantage to the beneficiary therein mentioned.
I am of the opinion that the expenditure of public money for such a purpose should depend upon the necessity of such a building for public u...
It seems to me that in the consideration of the merits of this bill the necessities of the Government should control the question.
