09/07/1888
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"I return without approval House bill No. 9183, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William P. Riddle.'"
"If this bill becomes a law, I am unable to see why, in fairness and justice, the widow of any officer of the grade of General Ward should not be allowed $50 a month."
"The husband of this beneficiary served about nine months in the Mexican War."
"There seems to be no satisfactory evidence that anything which occurred in his army service was the cause of his fall and consequent injury."