Special Message
03/15/1888
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If such speculations and presumptions as this are to be indulged, we shall find ourselves surrounded and hedged in by the rule that all men ...
It is very clear to me that the Pension Bureau properly rejected the widow's claim for pension.
I adopt these as the reasons for my action in withholding my approval of this bill.
There is absolutely no allegation of any incident of his service which it is claimed is at all related to his sickness and disability.