12/18/1888
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"I return without approval Senate bill No. 1288, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Robert Holsey.'"
"The record of his service contains no mention of any disability."
"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."
"The public money appropriated for pensions is the soldiers' fund, which should be devoted to the indemnification of those who in the defense of the Union have worthily suffered."