07/07/1886
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"I hereby return without my approval House bill No. 8293."
"This bill is in many of its features far removed from a legitimate deficiency bill, and it contains a number of appropriations which seem to me to be exceedingly questionable."
"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."
"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."