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 entering an army were free from disease or the liability to disease before their enlistment.
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I can not gather from the facts I have been able to collect concerning this appropriation that it is justified on any ground.
It is well known that the business of insurance is entered upon with the expectation that the premiums received will pay all losses and yield a profit to the insurance in addition.
I am advised by the Pension Bureau that the bill, if it becomes a law in its present form, would be inoperative.
I do not understand it to be asserted that there exists any legal liability against the Government on account of its relation to these claims.
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