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 case demonstrates the means employed in attempts to cheat the Government in applications for pensions--too often su...
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded October 2, ...
I think it may be said that at the close of the War of the Rebellion every Northern State and a great majority of Northe...
I can not believe that the vast peaceful army of Union soldiers... desire at this time and in the present exigency to be...
It is a mistake to suppose that service pensions, such as are permitted by the second section of the bill under consider...
I adhere to the sentiments thus heretofore expressed.
It is manifestly of the utmost importance that statutes which, like pension laws, should be liberally administered as me...
I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the House of the 24th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State.
There is no doubt that justice will be done the claimant under the general law.
I fully approve this action of the Bureau, and as this is much more favorable to a deserving soldier than his remedy und...
We do not believe him sick, or that he has been sick, but completely worthless.
I do not regard it at all strange that this claimant, encouraged by the ease with which special acts are passed, seeks r...
I withhold my assent from this bill because, if the facts before me... are true, the allowance of this claim would, in m...
I hereby return without approval House bill No. 7540, entitled 'An act to increase the pension of Franklin Sweet.'
He is totally unfit for the Invalid Corps or for any other military duty.
The rejection was clearly right, unless the Government is to be held as an insurer against every fatal casualty incurred...
