I return without approval House bill No. 8761, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Mrs. Anna Butterfield.'

It seems to me it would establish a very bad precedent to allow a pension upon the facts developed in this case.

Her advanced age and the honorable service of her son would make the allowance of a pension in her case, upon any fair and plausible justification, very gratifying.

I return without approval House bill No. 3521, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Manuel Garcia.'

No claim is made in any quarter that he incurred the least disability during this service.

This evidence ought not to be difficult to obtain.

The expediency of granting any right to the occupancy of this land is, in my opinion, very doubtful.

I return herewith the enrolled bill (S. 3303) amendatory of 'An act relating to postal crimes and amendatory of the statutes therein mentioned.'

It seems to me that if any use of this land is given to the city of Tacoma it should be with the proviso suggested by the Chief of Engineers, instead of the indefinite and restricted one incorporated in the bill.

I judge from an expression in the letter of the Chief of Engineers, made a part of the report of the committee of the House to which this bill was referred, that its original purpose was to absolutely transfer this reservation to the city…

The death of this valiant soldier and patriotic son of the Republic ... has nevertheless shocked the country and caused universal grief.

Someone with more intelligence than this ignorant colored woman concocted the scheme to gain this fraudulent pension.