I herewith return without my approval Senate bill No. 1421, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Weaver.'
I think it should be sustained; and its correctness is somewhat strengthened by the fact that the claimant continued in active service for m...
To grant a pension in this case would clearly contravene the present policy of the Government.
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.
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...
I am unable to discover how any different determination could have been reached.
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...
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 dea...
I have approved House bill No. 4335.
Attention is called to the existence of this excess of appropriation and the suggestion made that it be returned to the Treasury.