03/19/1888
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"I return without approval Senate bill No. 470, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Amanda F. Deck.'"
"A pension should not be allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical examinations failed to disclose any pensionable disability."
"I can not believe that an injury was sustained such as was specified by the applicant in 1880 and that nothing was said of it either in the claim made in 1864 or in 1870."
"The rejection of the widow's claim by the Pension Bureau on the ground that the cause of death was mainly intemperance was correct."