12/20/1885
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"If such speculations and presumptions as this are to be indulged, we shall find ourselves surrounded and hedged in by the rule that all men entering an army were free from disease or the liability to ..."
"I base my action upon the opinion, derived from an examination of the circumstances attending the death of the claimant's husband, that his fatal disease did not have its origin in his military servic..."
"I return without approval House bill No. 6718, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Starr.'"
"I am of the opinion that the matter should be determined by the Bureau to which it has properly been presented before special legislation should be invoked."