To the Senate: In answer to the resolution of the Senate of the 14th instant, relating to the arrest, trial, and dischar...
I find no reason why this beneficiary should be singled out from his class.
He is now receiving the highest rate allowed under the general law for cases such as his, and he would be entitled to no...
I can not put out of mind the soldiers in this condition who were privates in the ranks.
I am certain that exact equality and fairness in the treatment of our veterans is, after all, more just, beneficent, and...
All the information which is available to me fails to furnish any reason why this pension should be specially increased.
His widow's pension should be increased beyond that furnished others in her situation.
It could not, therefore, by any possibility be of the least benefit to him, but, on the other hand, might jeopardize his...
The beneficiary mentioned in this bill is now receiving the highest rate of pension allowed in cases such as hers under ...
He seems upon the facts presented to be justly entitled to it.
In the interest of the beneficiary and for her advantage the special bill is therefore disapproved.
I suppose his certificate has already been issued, and I am unwilling to jeopardize the advantages he has gained thereun...
I return herewith without approval Senate bill No. 2111, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Jacob Smith.'
But the pension under the general laws dates from the time of filing the application in 1879, while under a special act ...
This case demonstrates the means employed in attempts to cheat the Government in applications for pensions--too often su...
I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of...
If this is the officer whose widow is named in the bill, the proposition is to pension a widow of a soldier who, after a...
This bill proposes to grant a pension to the beneficiary therein named as the widow of Richard O'Neal.
