Policy

We might consider a practical policy to pursue.

I have not looked into waterways very much.

I expect to recommend to Congress that there be a union of all the instrumentalities of the Government for the organization of means of health and the study of disease.

The native constabulary will, so far as may be practicable, be preserved.

All persons who, either by active aid or by honest submission, co-operates with the United States in its efforts to give effect to this beneficent purpose will receive the reward of its support and protection.

I recommend that the necessary appropriations to complete the surveys and allotments be made at once available, so that the work may be begun and completed at the earliest possible day.

This agreement involves a departure from the terms of the general allotment act in at least one important particular.

Upon the merits as the case now stands, and because of the mistake in describing the relationship of the beneficiary, this bill, I think, should not become a law.

I think it should not, on the grounds that the amount was fixed by the Department upon full examination.

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

I am of the opinion that a case is not presented in any of its aspects justifying a pension.

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.

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.

It seems to me it would establish a very bad precedent to allow a pension upon the facts developed in this case.

The expediency of granting any right to the occupancy of this land is, in my opinion, very doubtful.

No substitute shall hereafter be employed in any Department.

I can not spell out any principle upon which the bounty of the Government is bestowed through the instrumentality of the flood of private pension bills that reach me.

The proposed legislation would establish a very bad precedent.