I herewith return without my approval Senate bill No. 1421, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Weaver.'

The object of the bill which I have approved is to extend the limit of the cost to $80,000 and to make the additional appropriation to reach that sum.

I have approved House bill No. 4335.

I think it should be sustained; and its correctness is somewhat strengthened by the fact that the claimant continued in active service for more than a year after his alleged sickness.

The trouble and expense incurred by the Pension Bureau to ascertain the truth and to deal fairly by this claimant, and the entire absence of any suspicion of bias against the claim in that Bureau, ought to give weight to its determination.

I am unable to discover how any different determination could have been reached.

I return without approval House bill No. 9106, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Rachel Barnes.'

I find no medical testimony referred to which with any distinctness charges death to the wound.

I am sure that in no case except in an application for pension would an attempt be made in the circumstances here developed to attribute death from apoplexy to a wound in the knee received nineteen years before the apoplectic attack.

To grant a pension in this case would clearly contravene the present policy of the Government.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 63.

It is hardly possible that the bill now before me is intended to authorize an additional bridge between the two towns named.