The propriety and expediency of this appropriation should be left to legislative discretion.
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...
There is hardly room for the pretense that her first husband's death was due to his military service.
I return without approval House bill No. 2233, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Bernard Carlin.'
I am of the opinion that a case is not presented in any of its aspects justifying a pension.
The allegation or the presumption that it caused his fatal fall, it seems to me, is entirely unwarranted.
I return without approval House bill No. 9183, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William P. Riddle.'
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 no...
The husband of this beneficiary served about nine months in the Mexican War.
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 can find no principle or plausible pretext in this case which would not lead to granting a pension in any case of alleged disability arisi...