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 to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of...
Of course these decisions were correct in law, in equity, and in morals.
The records of the War Department fail to show that there was a colonel of the Twenty-sixth Indiana Regiment named Richa...
This bill proposes to grant a pension to the beneficiary therein named as the widow of Richard O'Neal.
I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 859, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charlotte O'Neal.'
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded October 2, ...
It is manifestly of the utmost importance that statutes which, like pension laws, should be liberally administered as me...
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 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 adhere to the sentiments thus heretofore expressed.
I transmit herewith, in response to a resolution of the House of the 24th ultimo, a report of the Secretary of State.
The rejection was clearly right, unless the Government is to be held as an insurer against every fatal casualty incurred...
There is no doubt that justice will be done the claimant under the general law.
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...
