Of course these decisions were correct in law, in equity, and in morals.
The records of the War Department fail to show that there was a colonel of the Twenty-sixth Indiana Regiment named Richard O'Neal.
This bill proposes to grant a pension to the beneficiary therein named as the widow of Richard O'Neal.
I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 859, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charlotte O'Neal.'
I transmit herewith to the House of Representatives a report from the Secretary of State, in response to a resolution of that body of the 16...
If this is the officer whose widow is named in the bill, the proposition is to pension a widow of a soldier who, after a ten months' service...
I transmit herewith, with a view to its ratification, a treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, concluded October 2, 1886, in the harbor ...
It is manifestly of the utmost importance that statutes which, like pension laws, should be liberally administered as measures of benevolenc...
It is a mistake to suppose that service pensions, such as are permitted by the second section of the bill under consideration, are new to ou...
I adhere to the sentiments thus heretofore expressed.
I think it may be said that at the close of the War of the Rebellion every Northern State and a great majority of Northern counties and citi...