02/28/1886
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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 return herewith without approval House bill No. 6117, entitled 'An act granting a pension to James D. Cotton.'"
"In this condition of this case I think this bill should not be approved."
"I think upon all the facts presented the Pension Bureau properly rejected this claim, because there was no record of the injury and no satisfactory evidence produced showing that it was incurred in se..."