The fact that fourteen years elapsed after he claimed to have been injured by a fall from a wagon before he discovered that enlargement of the lungs and heart was his real difficulty is calculated to at least raise a doubt as to the…

It seems to me that a stronger case than this should be presented to justify the passage of a special act.

I neither believe it to be a duty nor a kindness to the worthy citizens for whose benefit our scheme of pensions was provided to permit the diversion of the nation's bounty to objects not within its scope and purpose.

I herewith return without approval Senate bill No. 1290, entitled 'An act granting a pension to David W. Hamilton.'

A wound from a shell causing the person injured to be 'disabled ever since' usually results in hospital or medical treatment.

If any money is to be given this man from the public Treasury, it should not be done under the guise of a pension.

To the Senate of the United States: A bill which originated in the Senate, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Edward Ayers,' and numbered 363, is herewith returned without approval.

I am convinced that the rejection of this claim by the Pension Bureau was correct, and think its action should not be reversed.

I find nothing in my examination of the facts connected with the case which impeaches the value of the surgeon's certificate upon which the adverse action of the Pension Bureau was predicated.

There is not a particle of proof or a fact stated either in the committee's report or the records in the Pension Bureau, so far as they are brought to my notice, tending to show that the claimant was in hospital or under medical care a…

recommend that appropriate legislation to fulfill that treaty promise of this Government be provided without further delay.

I transmit herewith, for your consideration with a view to their ratification, the 'convention concerning the international exchanges for official documents and literary publications' and the 'convention for assuring the immediate exchange…