I return without approval House bill No. 5593, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charles Walster.'

I do not think these facts are proven or can be assumed.

I do not think in the circumstances surrounding this case that the beneficiary should at this late day be permitted to impeach and set aside the medical certificate procured by himself and containing his own statements, upon which he…

Upon a review of the evidence taken it appears to be well established that any disability of the beneficiary heretofore existing was not attributable to his military service.

It thus appears that even if this bill were approved there could be no rating, and the legislation would be of no advantage to the beneficiary named.

his case is certainly a pitiable one I am forced to the belief that the conclusions reached in 1879 upon his application, that his disease was contracted while absent without leave and that his disability was due to syphilis, were correct.

I have to communicate the annexed copies of dispatches from our minister to China.

I do not understand that it has ever been claimed that a parent should be pensioned for the death of a son who had been in the Army unless his death could be traced in some way to his army service.

There is no intimation that the death of the son sixteen years after the close of the war was caused or in any way related to his military service.

While this case is probably one where the exercise of generosity would be pleasant and most timely to the recipient, I can not think that such a precedent should be established.

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.