I am impressed with the belief that the bill under consideration does not sufficiently guard against an invasion of the ...
The delay of twenty-one years in presenting the claim for pension certainly needs explanation.
This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary.
The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four y...
The Government ought not to be called upon to insure against the quarrelsome propensities of its individual soldiers.
Entertaining this belief, I am constrained to withhold my signature from this bill.
It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this ...
I think little, if any, more infirmity than is usually found in men of the age of the claimant.
I am entirely unable to see how the injuries are related to the claimant's army service.
I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due ...
I can not think that such a wholesome provision of law... should be modified upon the facts presented in this case.
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4797.
There seems to be an entire absence of proof of this important fact.
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...
I am entirely satisfied that the public building provided for in this bill is not immediately necessary.
The evidence of disability from the cause alleged is weak, to say the most of it.
The beneficiary named is the widow of Rowley S. McKay.
It certainly appears from the report of the committee that the beneficiary named in this bill was not in the service of ...