I return without approval Senate bill No. 470, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Amanda F. Deck.'

As her application to the Pension Bureau was quite lately favorably acted upon, it is supposed this special bill for her relief was passed by the Congress in ignorance of that fact.

The name of the beneficiary is already upon the pension roll, and she is now entitled to receive precisely the sum as a pensioner which is allowed her under this bill.

I can not believe that an injury was sustained such as was specified by the applicant in 1880 and that nothing was said of it either in the claim made in 1864 or in 1870.

The rejection of the widow's claim by the Pension Bureau on the ground that the cause of death was mainly intemperance was correct.

A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to disclose any pensionable disability.

This course of special legislation operates very unfairly.

I can not spell out any principle upon which the bounty of the Government is bestowed through the instrumentality of the flood of private pension bills that reach me.

The death of the son of the beneficiary is far from being satisfactorily established.

I can not see how the cause of death can be connected with his service or with the incapacity for which he was placed upon the retired list.

I think the action of the Bureau was correct.

I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a convention for the extradition of criminals between the United States of America and the Republic of Colombia.