Veto Message
04/20/1888
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As a legal proposition, the pensionable status of a soldier's widow, lost by her remarriage, can not be recovered by the dissolution of the ...
Legislation of this description is sure to establish a precedent which it will be difficult to disclaim, and which if followed can not fail ...
Her pensionable relation to the Government as the widow of her deceased soldier husband, under any reasonable pension theory, absolutely ter...
I suppose no one would suggest the renewal of such pension during the lifetime of her second husband.