I do not understand that the present post-office quarters are either insufficient or inconvenient.

I respectfully urge the consideration of the convention by the Senate during the present session.

The Indian occupants have not given their consent to it.

I am impressed with the belief that the bill under consideration does not sufficiently guard against an invasion of the rights and a disturbance of the peace and quiet of the Indians on the reservation mentioned.

I return without approval Senate bill No. 2281.

I am inclined to think it would have been a fortunate thing if in this case it could have been demonstrated that a man could thrive so well with the chronic diarrhea for fifty-two years as its existence in the case of this good old…

I am entirely satisfied that the public building provided for in this bill is not immediately necessary.

The delay of twenty-one years in presenting the claim for pension certainly needs explanation.

I can hardly see how the Pension Bureau could arrive at any conclusion except that the death of the soldier was not due to his military service.

I herewith return without approval House bill No. 4797.

It is hardly fair to ask the Government to grant a pension for the freak or gross heedlessness and recklessness of this soldier.

The fact is, in this case there is no disability which can be traced to the forty days' military service of fifty-four years ago.

There seems to be an entire absence of proof of this important fact.

I can not think that such a wholesome provision of law... should be modified upon the facts presented in this case.

I am entirely unable to see how the injuries are related to the claimant's army service.

This does not furnish a good reason for disapproving the erection of other buildings where actually necessary.

Entertaining this belief, I am constrained to withhold my signature from this bill.

I think little, if any, more infirmity than is usually found in men of the age of the claimant.