I return without approval House bill No. 4580, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Farnaren Ball.'

I believe this claim for pension to be a fraud from beginning to end.

I return without approval House bill No. 5234, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Cyrenius G. Stryker.'

The disability of which he complains has no natural relation to the sickness he claims to have had during his service.

I can not believe that his suicide had any connection with his army service.

The evidence now offered in support of this claim appears to have reference to a time long anterior to its rejection by the Pension Bureau in 1886.

It is hardly to be supposed that he wandered that far.

The proofs with which I have been furnished fail to satisfy me that the Government should grant a pension on account of death produced by a self-administered narcotic in the circumstances which surround this case.

When a park is established there, the island is no longer a defense in time of need.

The allowances to the Lawrence post-office for the year ending June 30, 1883, was $3,100.

I am now advised by the Secretary of War, the Chief of Engineers, and the Lieutenant-General of the Army, in quite positive terms, that the resolution under consideration should not, for reasons fully stated by them, become operative.

Much interest is manifested in this case, based upon former friendship and intimacy with the deceased and kind feeling and sympathy for his widow.