It is not approved because I believe it to be unnecessary and because I am by no means convinced that its mere passage and approval at this time may not endanger and embarrass the successful and useful operations of the Treasury Department.

I am of the opinion that claims for extra compensation such as these should be firmly discountenanced.

The fact of this payment and important information bearing upon the validity of some of the other claims mentioned in the bill could have been easily obtained by application to the Third Auditor.

I am not willing to agree to his release from the consequence of his failure to perform his contract.

If there is anything in the argument last referred to it seems so well answered by the maintenance of the Naval Academy at Annapolis.

I don't see why they should not be paid both compensations.

I do not understand this resolution nor the purposes sought to be accomplished by its passage.

I am constrained to dissent.

They ought not to complain if they have received the amount for which they agreed to work.

I think the circumstances here presented, especially the fact of nonresidence by the son with his mother since her second marriage, do not call for a departure from the law governing claims based upon dependence.

But the most favorable phase of the case does not aid her, since her claim rests upon the allegation that her husband was subject to epileptic fits and died from congestion of the brain while in one of these fits.

This is not a pleasant recital, and as against the widow I should be glad to avoid its effect.