I return without approval House bill No. 5593, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charles Walster.'

This case has been very exhaustively examined by the Pension Bureau upon the application for a pension filed there by the beneficiary named in this bill.

To the House of Representatives: In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th instant (the Senate concurring), I return herewith House bill No. 10,060, entitled 'An act prescribing the times for sales and for…

I return without approval Senate bill No. 2370, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sarah C. Anderson and children under 16 years of age.'

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1762, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin A. Burtram.'

This bill does not give the name of the intended beneficiary.

I return the joint resolution without approval.

I return without approval House bill No. 2233, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Bernard Carlin.'

While it is the rule under general laws that two pensions shall not be paid to the same person, ... it may result that under the peculiar wording of this bill she would be entitled to both pensions.

This is certainly the correct course to be pursued in this case, in view of the failure to state in the special bill the regiment and company to which the soldier belonged at the time of the incurrence of disability.

I return without approval House bill No. 9183, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William P. Riddle.'

I return without approval House bill No. 3521, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Manuel Garcia.'

I return herewith the enrolled bill (S. 3303) amendatory of 'An act relating to postal crimes and amendatory of the statutes therein mentioned.'

It seems to me that if any use of this land is given to the city of Tacoma it should be with the proviso suggested by the Chief of Engineers, instead of the indefinite and restricted one incorporated in the bill.

I return without approval House bill No. 9520, entitled 'An act for the relief of Mary Fitzmorris.'

It is proposed by this bill to pension the beneficiary named therein, as the widow of Edmund Fitzmorris, under the provisions and limitations of the general pension laws.

The name of the beneficiary is already upon the pension roll, and she is now entitled to receive precisely the sum as a pensioner which is allowed her under this bill.

As her application to the Pension Bureau was quite lately favorably acted upon, it is supposed this special bill for her relief was passed by the Congress in ignorance of that fact.