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 t...
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 wo...
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.
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.
It does not seem to me that this case in its present condition should receive favorable consideration.
It seems to me it would establish a very bad precedent to allow a pension upon the facts developed in this case.
This evidence ought not to be difficult to obtain.
No claim is made in any quarter that he incurred the least disability during this service.
I return without approval House bill No. 3521, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Manuel Garcia.'
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 justifi...