Grover Cleveland

I never thought of trying getting a pension until my old comrades urged me to do so.

It seems to me that it by no means follows that those intrusted with the people's business and the expenditure of the people's money are justified in so executing the pension laws as that they shall furnish a means of relief in every case…

I therefore suggest that a second provision to the law accepting her be made giving authority to the Court of Claims to hear and determine the question of title.

I transmit herewith a communication, with an accompanying paper, from the Secretary of State, in relation to the distribution of the award of the late Mexican Claims Commission in the case of S. A. Belden & Co. against the Republic of…

I recommend that legislation in this sense be adopted.

It is also impossible to connect the death with any incident of the soldier's military service.

There has been much testimony taken in this case, and a great deal of it is exceedingly contradictory.

This man was mustered into the service October 26, 1861.

It is proposed by this bill to grant a pension to the beneficiary named as the widow of Thomas Connelly.

I return herewith without approval House bill No. 6117, entitled 'An act granting a pension to James D. Cotton.'

I hereby return without approval House bill No. 7167, entitled 'An act for the relief of Mrs. Maria Hunter.'

Those who prosecute claims for pensions have grown very bold when cases of this description are presented for consideration.

I return herewith without approval House bill No. 424, entitled 'An act to pension Giles C. Hawley.'

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 service and in line of duty, 'all sources…

I am convinced that the Pension Bureau acted upon entirely satisfactory evidence when this claim was rejected upon the ground that the cause of death originated subsequent to the soldier's discharge.

The widow's claim seems to have been properly rejected by the Pension Bureau on the ground that the soldier's death was not due to his military service.

justice will be done in the case.

I return without approval House bill No. 7162, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Martha McIlwain.'

In this condition of this case I think this bill should not be approved.

I return herewith without approval House bill No. 3205, entitled 'An act granting a pension to George W. Guyse.'

There is absolutely no allegation of any incident of his service which it is claimed is at all related to his sickness and disability.

It is very clear to me that the Pension Bureau properly rejected the widow's claim for pension.

That she has employed an ingenious attorney or agent is demonstrated by the fact that the bill now before me seems to be based upon the theory that Mr. Probert might have recovered from his attack of yellow fever if he had been free from…

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 disease before their enlistment.

I hereby return without approval House bill No. 7931, entitled 'An act increasing the pension of Clark Boon.'