Grover Cleveland actually said...

The husband of this beneficiary served about nine months in the Mexican War.

There seems to be no satisfactory evidence that anything which occurred in his army service was the cause of his fall and consequent injury.

I can find no principle or plausible pretext in this case which would not lead to granting a pension in any case of alleged disability arisi...

This is certainly the correct course to be pursued in this case, in view of the failure to state in the special bill the regiment and compan...