The propriety and expediency of this appropriation should be left to legislative discretion.
I fail to find in it reasonably satisfactory proof that the disabilities upon which he now bases his claim for a pension...
I return without approval Senate bill No. 1076.
I return without approval Senate bill No. 1762, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin A. Burtram.'
There is hardly room for the pretense that her first husband's death was due to his military service.
This bill does not give the name of the intended beneficiary.
I can find no principle or plausible pretext in this case which would not lead to granting a pension in any case of alle...
I return without approval House bill No. 2233, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Bernard Carlin.'
I am of the opinion that a case is not presented in any of its aspects justifying a pension.
I return without approval House bill No. 9183, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William P. Riddle.'
It does not seem to me that this case in its present condition should receive favorable consideration.
Age and poverty do not themselves justify gifts of public money.
This is certainly the correct course to be pursued in this case, in view of the failure to state in the special bill the...
While it is the rule under general laws that two pensions shall not be paid to the same person, ... it may result that u...
Whatever may be said of the incurrence of sunstroke in the Army, I find no proof that at the time he fell he was afflict...
I return without approval House bill No. 8574, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sallie T. Ward, widow of the late ...
If this bill becomes a law, I am unable to see why, in fairness and justice, the widow of any officer of the grade of Ge...
The allegation or the presumption that it caused his fatal fall, it seems to me, is entirely unwarranted.
