Veto Message
05/25/1888
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
It is manifestly of the utmost importance that statutes which, like pension laws, should be liberally administered as measures of benevolenc...
It is a mistake to suppose that service pensions, such as are permitted by the second section of the bill under consideration, are new to ou...
I adhere to the sentiments thus heretofore expressed.
I think it may be said that at the close of the War of the Rebellion every Northern State and a great majority of Northern counties and citi...