I return herewith Senate bill No. 2056, entitled 'An act to amend the pension laws by increasing the pensions of soldiers and sailors who have lost an arm or leg in the service.'

I return without approval House bill No. 5389, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Ann Kinney.'

I herewith return without approval House bill No. 1584, entitled 'An act for the relief of Mrs. Aurelia C. Richardson.'

It is certainly not a cause of regret if by legislation of this character he is afforded a means by which he may better protect himself against imposition.

I answer in the negative.

I should doubtless feel constrained to interpose Executive dissent.

certain correspondence and accompanying documents in relation to the arrest and imprisonment at Paso del Norte by Mexican authority of A. K. Cutting, a citizen of the United States.

There is certainly no industry better entitled to the incidental advantages which may follow this legislation than our farming and dairy interests.

This legislation has awakened much interest among the people of the country.

If the existence of the commodity taxed and the profits of its manufacture and sale depend upon disposing of it to the people for something else which it deceitfully imitates, the entire enterprise is a fraud and not an industry.

I herewith return without my approval Senate bill No. 1421, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Weaver.'

To grant a pension in this case would clearly contravene the present policy of the Government.

I am sure that in no case except in an application for pension would an attempt be made in the circumstances here developed to attribute death from apoplexy to a wound in the knee received nineteen years before the apoplectic attack.

I think it should be sustained; and its correctness is somewhat strengthened by the fact that the claimant continued in active service for more than a year after his alleged sickness.

I am unable to discover how any different determination could have been reached.

The object of the bill which I have approved is to extend the limit of the cost to $80,000 and to make the additional appropriation to reach that sum.

I find no medical testimony referred to which with any distinctness charges death to the wound.

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, ought to give weight to its determination.