12/20/1885
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"This case demonstrates the means employed in attempts to cheat the Government in applications for pensions--too often successful."
"Of course these decisions were correct in law, in equity, and in morals."
"The records of the War Department fail to show that there was a colonel of the Twenty-sixth Indiana Regiment named Richard O'Neal."
"This bill proposes to grant a pension to the beneficiary therein named as the widow of Richard O'Neal."