I return without approval Senate bill No. 835, entitled 'An act for the relief of Elisha Griswold.'

His claim based upon this injury was, in my opinion, properly rejected as having no connection with his military service.

The utmost liberality to those who were in our Army hardly justifies a compensation by way of pension for injuries incurred in sport or pastime or as the result of a practical joke.

I can not see that it was such a result of military service as to entitle the applicant to a pension.

There does not seem to be any governmental purpose to which such a building could be properly devoted except the accommodation of the post-office.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 347, entitled 'An act to provide for the erection of a public building in the city of Youngstown, Ohio.'

If the claims mentioned are such as should be paid by the United States, there appears to be no difficulty in making an appropriation for their payment from the general funds of the Government.

This balance was on the 30th day of June, 1877, carried to the surplus fund and covered into the Treasury.

It is directed, however, that this money be paid out of the Texas indemnity fund.

This bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the party named therein the sum of $905.

Thus since that date it seems there has been no Texas indemnity fund, nor is there any such fund now from which the money mentioned in the bill herewith returned can be paid.

It is hardly to be supposed that he wandered that far.

I can not believe that his suicide had any connection with his army service.

I do not see how the relief proposed can be granted in this case without an unjustifiable departure from the rules under which applications for pension should be determined.

I believe this claim for pension to be a fraud from beginning to end.

There is very little evidence offered of any unsoundness of mind.

An attorney having the mother's application for pension in charge withdrew from the case in October, 1884, for the reason that...his death was caused by a snow slide.

I return without approval House bill No. 5234, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Cyrenius G. Stryker.'