Policy

I do not see how the relief proposed can be granted in this case without an unjustifiable departure from the rules under which applications for pension should be determined.

The proofs with which I have been furnished fail to satisfy me that the Government should grant a pension on account of death produced by a self-administered narcotic in the circumstances which surround this case.

Surely no one will seriously propose that a claim for pension should rest upon a conjecture as to what would have caused death if it had not occurred in an entirely different way.

The application for pension is fraudulent and should not be allowed.

It is thus far our settled and avowed policy to grant pensions only to widows whose husbands have died from causes related to military service.

The roads have not been built, and yet an attempt is made to claim the lands

Any direction as to the final disposition of them should originate with Congress.

In the interest of the beneficiary and for her advantage the special bill is therefore disapproved.

The subject is presented for the consideration and action of Congress.

I shall issue no new order on the subject at present.

They are transmitted with the assurance that any measures that may be enacted in furtherance of these important interests will meet with my cordial approval.

In my judgment it will be found impracticable in the present condition of the currency to make such a discrimination.

That amendment is of so much importance that the adoption or rejection of it by the Government of Nicaragua should not be left to construction or inference.

In the annual message last December I thought fit to say 'the Union must be preserved, and hence all indispensable means must be employed.'

The urgency of the case not only justifies but demands that, if necessary, this shall be done by a separate bill.

I still entertain the same opinion, deeming it highly important, if not indispensable to the success of any negotiation which I might institute for this purpose, that the measure should receive the previous sanction of Congress.

Will be stopped and compelled to return by the same conveyance that took them to the country.

I promise that not an hour shall be lost in ascertaining the amount of appropriations made by them for which it will be necessary to provide.