A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to disclose any pensionable disability.
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 ...
The rejection of the widow's claim by the Pension Bureau on the ground that the cause of death was mainly intemperance 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...
I think the action of the Bureau was correct.
I am satisfied that this case was properly disposed of by the Pension Bureau.
The death of the son of the beneficiary is far from being satisfactorily established.
I can not spell out any principle upon which the bounty of the Government is bestowed through the instrumentality of the flood of private pe...
This course of special legislation operates very unfairly.
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 have considered the pension list of the Republic a roll of honor, bearing names inscribed by national gratitude, and not by improvident an...