This I deem sufficient reason why the proposed bill should not now become a law.

I can see no pretext for allowing a pension in this case.

I am satisfied that this conclusion of the Pension Bureau was correct.

I return herewith without approval House bill No. 7979, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jackson Steward.'

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1288, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Robert Holsey.'

To depart from all rules regulating the granting of pensions by such an enactment as is proposed would establish a precedent which could not fail to cause embarrassment and perplexity.

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 return without approval House bill No. 3624, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Fred. J. Leese.'

A better reason is based upon the entire lack of any facts shown to exist which entitle the beneficiary named to a pension.

I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 1584, entitled 'An act for the relief of Cornelia R. Schenck.'

The public money appropriated for pensions is the soldiers' fund, which should be devoted to the indemnification of those who in the defense of the Union have worthily suffered.

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 for gain urge honest men to become dishonest.

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 the Interior.

My objection to this bill is that it is of no possible advantage to the beneficiary therein mentioned.

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 the claimant to a pension.

I am also thoroughly convinced, from examination of the case, that the claimant should not be pensioned.