07/04/1886
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"I return herewith without approval Senate bill No. 1726, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Augustus Field Stevens.'"
"I am not prepared either to gratuitously set at naught two determinations of the Pension Bureau..."
"This bill is not based upon substantial merits."
"It was so satisfactorily proven that the disease which indirectly caused the death of the claimant's husband was not contracted in the service."