04/05/1886
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"I return without approval House bill No. 9106, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Rachel Barnes.'"
"Attention is called to the existence of this excess of appropriation and the suggestion made that it be returned to the Treasury."
"I am unable to discover how any different determination could have been reached."
"The trouble and expense incurred by the Pension Bureau to ascertain the truth and to deal fairly by this claimant, and the entire absence of any suspicion of bias against the claim in that Bureau, oug..."