Special Message
02/24/1887
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This case demonstrates the means employed in attempts to cheat the Government in applications for pensions--too often successful.
If this is the officer whose widow is named in the bill, the proposition is to pension a widow of a soldier who, after a ten months' service...
The records of the War Department fail to show that there was a colonel of the Twenty-sixth Indiana Regiment named Richard O'Neal.
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded October 2, 1886, in the harbor ...