I am satisfied that this conclusion of the Pension Bureau was correct.
No facts are presented to me which entitle it to charitable consideration.
I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 2005, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mary J. Nottage.'
I can see no pretext for allowing a pension in this case.
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...
I return without approval Senate bill No. 2223, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Elizabeth S. De Krafft.'
There does not appear on the records any evidence of disability.
Every relaxation of principle in the granting of pensions invites applications without merit and encourages those who fo...
I return without approval House bill No. 3624, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Fred. J. Leese.'
I deem myself obliged to disapprove this bill on the ground that there is an almost complete failure to state any facts ...
The public money appropriated for pensions is the soldiers' fund, which should be devoted to the indemnification of thos...
I am also thoroughly convinced, from examination of the case, that the claimant should not be pensioned.
A better reason is based upon the entire lack of any facts shown to exist which entitle the beneficiary named to a pensi...
My objection to this bill is that it is of no possible advantage to the beneficiary therein mentioned.
I find nothing in the facts presented to me which, in my opinion, justifies the reversal of the judgment of the Bureau a...
The record of his service contains no mention of any disability.
I have concluded to approve the same upon the assurance of those actively promoting its passage that another bill shall ...