Veto Message
07/01/1886
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Although there are cases in which it seems not improper that pensions should be granted for injuries sustained during furlough and before ac...
I am fully satisfied that the surgeon was not mistaken who made the certificate upon which the beneficiary was discharged.
The man for whom this pension is proposed never, so far as I can learn, did a single day's actual military service at the front.
Never has done a day's duty. Is utterly worthless and unfit for the Veteran Reserve Corps.