Special Message
04/13/1886
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I do not see how the relief proposed can be granted in this case without an unjustifiable departure from the rules under which applications ...
I believe this claim for pension to be a fraud from beginning to end.
It seems to me, however, that it would establish a bad precedent to provide for her from the Federal Treasury.
It is hardly to be supposed that he wandered that far.