Grover Cleveland

I suppose that every army ailment does not necessarily result in death or disability.

I am of the opinion that a correct conclusion was reached when the application for pension in this case was denied by the Pension Bureau.

To depart from all rules regulating the granting of pensions by such an enactment as is proposed would establish a precedent which could not fail to cause embarrassment and perplexity.

No facts are presented to me which entitle it to charitable consideration.

I am so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals who in my view have no right or claim to the same.

Every relaxation of principle in the granting of pensions invites applications without merit and encourages those who for gain urge honest men to become dishonest.

My objection to this bill is that it is of no possible advantage to the beneficiary therein mentioned.

I deem myself obliged to disapprove this bill on the ground that there is an almost complete failure to state any facts that should entitle the claimant to a pension.

The record of his service contains no mention of any disability.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 2223, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Elizabeth S. De Krafft.'

I find nothing in the facts presented to me which, in my opinion, justifies the reversal of the judgment of the Bureau and the Secretary of the Interior.

A better reason is based upon the entire lack of any facts shown to exist which entitle the beneficiary named to a pension.

There does not appear on the records any evidence of disability.

I am also thoroughly convinced, from examination of the case, that the claimant should not be pensioned.

I return without approval House bill No. 3624, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Fred. J. Leese.'

I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 1584, entitled 'An act for the relief of Cornelia R. Schenck.'

The public money appropriated for pensions is the soldiers' fund, which should be devoted to the indemnification of those who in the defense of the Union have worthily suffered.

Nor should the door be opened to applications of this kind.

It seems to me that in the consideration of the merits of this bill the necessities of the Government should control the question.

The facts here presented come so far short of furnishing a satisfactory excuse for his delay.

In my judgment the number of public buildings should not at this time be increased unless a greater public necessity exists therefor than is apparent in this case.

It does not appear to have been of so distinguished a character, nor are the circumstances of his widow alleged to be such, as to render a gratuity justifiable.

There is such a failure to adjust existing laws to the new departure proposed by the bill as to greatly endanger the public service if this bill should not be amended or at once supplemented by additional legislation.

I think the limitation thus fixed a very wise one.

The evidence recited in the report of the Congressional committee to whom this bill was referred, though it tends to show, if reliable, that when the soldier returned from his service his leg was affected, fails to show a continuous…