There seems to be an entire lack of testimony connecting in any reasonable way his death with any incident of his military service.

To allow a claim so lacking in merit would endanger discipline and invite irregularity and loose methods in a very important branch of the public service.

I do not understand that this physician gives the least support to the theory that the wound for which this soldier was pensioned was in the slightest degree connected with his death.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1076.

The propriety and expediency of this appropriation should be left to legislative discretion.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1762, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin A. Burtram.'

I fail to find in it reasonably satisfactory proof that the disabilities upon which he now bases his claim for a pension were incurred in the military service.

There is hardly room for the pretense that her first husband's death was due to his military service.

I return the joint resolution without approval.

This bill does not give the name of the intended beneficiary.

The husband of this beneficiary served about nine months in the Mexican War.

I return without approval House bill No. 9183, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William P. Riddle.'