Veto Message
02/25/1887
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While it is the rule under general laws that two pensions shall not be paid to the same person, ... it may result that under the peculiar wo...
Whatever may be said of the incurrence of sunstroke in the Army, I find no proof that at the time he fell he was afflicted with vertigo.
I return without approval House bill No. 8574, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sallie T. Ward, widow of the late W. T. Ward.'
Age and poverty do not themselves justify gifts of public money.