"This pension should not be allowed."
"I am of the opinion that the evidence against the pension was quite satisfactory, and that it should not be restored, as the bill before me proposes."
"The beneficiary named is the widow of Rowley S. McKay."
"I am satisfied that a fair examination of the facts in this case justifies the statement that the bill under consideration can rest only upon the grounds that aid should be furnished to this ex-soldie..."
"The fact that the claim of the beneficiary has never been presented to the pension Bureau influences in some degree my action in withholding my approval of this bill."
"There does not appear to be any medical testimony to support the claim thus made by the widow."
"It is evident that he obtained a large sum as pension to which he must have known he was not entitled."
"It certainly appears from the report of the committee that the beneficiary named in this bill was not in the service of the Government at such a time."
"the effort to attribute his death by apoplexy to the existence of hernia ought not to be successful."
"I hereby return without approval Senate bill No. 365, entitled 'An act for the relief of Martin L. Bundy.'"
"It is hereby ordered that the several Executive Departments, the Department of Agriculture, and the Government Printing Office be closed on Monday the 5th instant."