Neither the service nor the alleged disability of this beneficiary are of a meritorious character.

To allow a claim so lacking in merit would endanger discipline and invite irregularity and loose methods in a very important branch of the public service.

It seems to me that the action of Congress in relieving these sureties was generous in the extreme.

There seems to be an entire lack of testimony connecting in any reasonable way his death with any incident of his military service.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 2370, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Sarah C. Anderson and children under 16 years of age.'

If there is any value to be placed upon the reports of these examining boards, the refusal of the Pension Bureau to restore this beneficiary to the rolls was fully justified.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1762, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Benjamin A. Burtram.'

The propriety and expediency of this appropriation should be left to legislative discretion.

I return the joint resolution without approval.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 1076.

I fail to find in it reasonably satisfactory proof that the disabilities upon which he now bases his claim for a pension were incurred in the military service.

This bill does not give the name of the intended beneficiary.

There is hardly room for the pretense that her first husband's death was due to his military service.

I do not understand that this physician gives the least support to the theory that the wound for which this soldier was pensioned was in the slightest degree connected with his death.

There seems to be no satisfactory evidence that anything which occurred in his army service was the cause of his fall and consequent injury.

The husband of this beneficiary served about nine months in the Mexican War.

Age and poverty do not themselves justify gifts of public money.

It does not seem to me that this case in its present condition should receive favorable consideration.