"I herewith return without approval House bill No. 900, entitled 'An act to provide for the payment of the claim of William H. Mahoney.'"
"I believe no greater danger confronts us as a nation than the unhappy decadence among our people of genuine and trustworthy love and affection for our Government as the embodiment of the highest and b..."
"Economy and the exaction of clear justification for the appropriation of public moneys by the servants of the people are not only virtues, but solemn obligations."
"The bond directed to be given by this bill would afford the Government no protection, since it only provides against repayment of the bond in the future, whereas the payment we should suffer from has ..."
"I suppose to sustain a claim upon the indemnity bond given when the duplicate was issued in 1864 we should be prepared to show that the second payment on the original bond was made upon such a state o..."
"I only discharge a duty to our people when I interpose my disapproval of the legislation proposed."
"The Government has therefore once paid the amount of this bond to the party apparently entitled to it."
"It is quite plain that in fairness and justice no appropriation should be made in favor of the claimant."
"As a legal proposition, the pensionable status of a soldier's widow, lost by her remarriage, can not be recovered by the dissolution of the second marriage."
"I suppose no one would suggest the renewal of such pension during the lifetime of her second husband."
"Her pensionable relation to the Government as the widow of her deceased soldier husband, under any reasonable pension theory, absolutely terminated with her remarriage."