This bill is in many of its features far removed from a legitimate deficiency bill, and it contains a number of appropri...
It is well known that the business of insurance is entered upon with the expectation that the premiums received will pay...
There certainly ought to be a strong presumption that the case was fairly and justly determined by the Bureau.
I am advised by the Pension Bureau that the bill, if it becomes a law in its present form, would be inoperative.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4526, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jonathan Scott.'
The bond directed to be given by this bill would afford the Government no protection, since it only provides against rep...
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 900, entitled 'An act to provide for the payment of the claim of Willi...
The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it.
I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and trustwor...
Economy and the exaction of clear justification for the appropriation of public moneys by the servants of the people are...
I only discharge a duty to our people when I interpose my disapproval of the legislation proposed.
I suppose to sustain a claim upon the indemnity bond given when the duplicate was issued in 1864 we should be prepared t...
It is quite plain that in fairness and justice no appropriation should be made in favor of the claimant.
As a legal proposition, the pensionable status of a soldier's widow, lost by her remarriage, can not be recovered by the...
Her pensionable relation to the Government as the widow of her deceased soldier husband, under any reasonable pension th...
Legislation of this description is sure to establish a precedent which it will be difficult to disclaim, and which if fo...
I suppose no one would suggest the renewal of such pension during the lifetime of her second husband.
I transmit herewith, in response to the resolution of the Senate dated the 9th instant and addressed to the Secretary of...
