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.

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.

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.

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.