Special Message
07/07/1886
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I recommend that legislation in this sense be adopted.
It is very clear to me that the Pension Bureau properly rejected the widow's claim for pension.
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 ...
I return herewith without approval House bill No. 6117, entitled 'An act granting a pension to James D. Cotton.'