This is certainly the correct course to be pursued in this case, in view of the failure to state in the special bill the regiment and company to which the soldier belonged at the time of the incurrence of disability.

There seems to be no satisfactory evidence that anything which occurred in his army service was the cause of his fall and consequent injury.

I return without approval House bill No. 2233, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Bernard Carlin.'

If this bill becomes a law, I am unable to see why, in fairness and justice, the widow of any officer of the grade of General Ward should not be allowed $50 a month.

I am of the opinion that a case is not presented in any of its aspects justifying a pension.

While it is the rule under general laws that two pensions shall not be paid to the same person, ... it may result that under the peculiar wording of this bill she would be entitled to both pensions.

I return without approval House bill No. 8574, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sallie T. Ward, widow of the late W. T. Ward.'

Age and poverty do not themselves justify gifts of public money.

The allegation or the presumption that it caused his fatal fall, it seems to me, is entirely unwarranted.

Whatever may be said of the incurrence of sunstroke in the Army, I find no proof that at the time he fell he was afflicted with vertigo.

It does not seem to me that this case in its present condition should receive favorable consideration.

I can find no principle or plausible pretext in this case which would not lead to granting a pension in any case of alleged disability arising from military service followed by suicide.