@grovercleveland· Democratic · NJ· May 27, 1888
I can not see that it was such a result of military service as to entitle the applicant to a pension.
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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.