I can not think that such a wholesome provision of law... should be modified upon the facts presented in this case.
I am entirely satisfied that the public building provided for in this bill is not immediately necessary.
The delay of twenty-one years in presenting the claim for pension certainly needs explanation.
There seems to be an entire absence of proof of this important fact.
The Government ought not to be called upon to insure against the quarrelsome propensities of its individual soldiers.
It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this ...
The evidence of disability from the cause alleged is weak, to say the most of it.
The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four y...
I think little, if any, more infirmity than is usually found in men of the age of the claimant.
I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due ...
I am entirely unable to see how the injuries are related to the claimant's army service.
I am inclined to think it would have been a fortunate thing if in this case it could have been demonstrated that a man c...
The results of these examinations should, I think, control as against the statements of neighbors and comrades.
The question is whether we are prepared to adopt this principle and establish this precedent.
This pension should not be allowed.
There does not appear to be any medical testimony to support the claim thus made by the widow.
I am satisfied that a fair examination of the facts in this case justifies the statement that the bill under considerati...
I am of the opinion that the evidence against the pension was quite satisfactory, and that it should not be restored, as...
