08/21/1888
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"I return without approval Senate bill No. 2665, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Charles J. Esty.'"
"This was a proper disposition of the case unless the Government is held liable for every disability which may afflict those who served in the Union Army."
"I can see no reason why such a distinction should exist."
"it seems to me it must be conceded that a conclusion that death was in any degree the result of wounds received in military service rests upon the most unsatisfactory conjecture."