01/17/1889
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"This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary."
"It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this soldier."
"The evidence of disability from the cause alleged is weak, to say the most of it."
"The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four years ago."