"The delay of twenty-one years in presenting the claim for pension certainly needs explanation."
"I am inclined to think it would have been a fortunate thing if in this case it could have been demonstrated that a man could thrive so well with the chronic diarrhea for fifty-two years as its existen..."
"I am entirely satisfied that the public building provided for in this bill is not immediately necessary."
"I think little, if any, more infirmity than is usually found in men of the age of the claimant."
"This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary."
"It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this soldier."
"The evidence of disability from the cause alleged is weak, to say the most of it."
"The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four years ago."
"I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due to his military service."
"I can not think that such a wholesome provision of law... should be modified upon the facts presented in this case."
"I am entirely unable to see how the injuries are related to the claimant's army service."