Veto Message
05/17/1888
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I was constrained to return without approval a bill identical with the one herewith returned.
He died June 7, 1881, and there does not appear to have been any evidence produced as to the cause of his death.
It is proposed by this bill to pension the beneficiary therein named as the widow of Newton E. Drake.
It seemed to me at that time that the soldier's death could not be held to be the result of his wound or any other cause chargeable to his m...