"I return without approval House bill No. 3624, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Fred. J. Leese.'"
"There does not appear on the records any evidence of disability."
"I am so thoroughly tired of disapproving gifts of public money to individuals who in my view have no right or claim to the same."
"I am also thoroughly convinced, from examination of the case, that the claimant should not be pensioned."
"Every relaxation of principle in the granting of pensions invites applications without merit and encourages those who for gain urge honest men to become dishonest."
"I find nothing in the facts presented to me which, in my opinion, justifies the reversal of the judgment of the Bureau and the Secretary of the Interior."
"There is such a failure to adjust existing laws to the new departure proposed by the bill as to greatly endanger the public service if this bill should not be amended or at once supplemented by additi..."
"I have concluded to approve the same upon the assurance of those actively promoting its passage that another bill shall at once be introduced to cover the defect above referred to."
"The facts here presented come so far short of furnishing a satisfactory excuse for his delay."
"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 betwe..."
"The necessity of such supplemental legislation is so obvious that I hope it will receive the immediate action of the Congress."