No Federal courts are held at Zanesville, and there are no Government officers located there who should be provided for at the public expense except the postmaster.

The necessity of such supplemental legislation is so obvious that I hope it will receive the immediate action of the Congress.

I find upon examination that United States courts are sometimes held at Sioux City, but that they have been thus far held in the county courthouse without serious inconvenience and without any expense to the Government.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 763, entitled 'An act for the erection of a public building at Sioux City, Iowa.'

It seems to me that however satisfactorily the injury which he described may be established, and though every suspicion as to his habits be dismissed, there can hardly possibly be any connection between such an injury and the causes to…

I herewith transmit a letter from the Secretary of State, with an accompanying paper, in relation to the distribution of the fund appropriated by the act of April 20, 1882, for the relief of the captain, owners, officers, and crew of the…

It was not possible for this Government to ask his surrender, but the Japanese Government of its own motion caused his delivery as a friendly act.

His claim is not based upon any wound or injury, but he alleges that he contracted chronic diarrhea or dysentery while in the service.

I am not prepared either to gratuitously set at naught two determinations of the Pension Bureau...

I return herewith without approval Senate bill No. 1726, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Augustus Field Stevens.'

This bill is not based upon substantial merits.

It was so satisfactorily proven that the disease which indirectly caused the death of the claimant's husband was not contracted in the service.