While this case is probably one where the exercise of generosity would be pleasant and most timely to the recipient, I can not think that such a precedent should be established.
Although there are cases in which it seems not improper that pensions should be granted for injuries sustained during furlough and before ac...
I am fully satisfied that the surgeon was not mistaken who made the certificate upon which the beneficiary was discharged.
The man for whom this pension is proposed never, so far as I can learn, did a single day's actual military service at the front.
Never has done a day's duty. Is utterly worthless and unfit for the Veteran Reserve Corps.
To give the least encouragement to postmasters that these allowances would be upon their application revised and increased by Congress would...
I think it should not, on the grounds that the amount was fixed by the Department upon full examination.
To the House of Representatives: In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 27th instant (the Senate concurring)...
As a general rule the allowances made by the Post-Office Department in these cases ought not to be interfered with.
To allow a claim so lacking in merit would endanger discipline and invite irregularity and loose methods in a very important branch of the p...
If there is any value to be placed upon the reports of these examining boards, the refusal of the Pension Bureau to restore this beneficiary...