Veto Message
08/26/1888
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The fact that fourteen years elapsed after he claimed to have been injured by a fall from a wagon before he discovered that enlargement of t...
I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 1290, entitled 'An act granting a pension to David W. Hamilton.'
It seems to me that a stronger case than this should be presented to justify the passage of a special act.
I neither believe it to be a duty nor a kindness to the worthy citizens for whose benefit our scheme of pensions was provided to permit the ...