I will take no part in putting a name upon our pension roll which represents a Union soldier found fighting against the cause he swore he would uphold.

I can not see that it was such a result of military service as to entitle the applicant to a pension.

I withhold my assent from this bill because, if the facts before me... are true, the allowance of this claim would, in my opinion, be a travesty upon our whole scheme of pensions and an insult to every decent veteran soldier.