12/05/1886
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"This evidence ought not to be difficult to obtain."
"No claim is made in any quarter that he incurred the least disability during this service."
"I return without approval House bill No. 3521, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Manuel Garcia.'"
"Her advanced age and the honorable service of her son would make the allowance of a pension in her case, upon any fair and plausible justification, very gratifying."