I hereby return without approval House bill No. 7298, entitled 'An act for the relief of Charles Schuler.'

He never did a day's service so far as his name appears, and the muster-out roll of his company reports him as having deserted at Camp Cameron, Pa., November 14, 1861.

I herewith return without approval House bill No. 6774, entitled 'An act granting a pension to Bruno Schultz.'

I hereby return without approval House bill No. 7931, entitled 'An act increasing the pension of Clark Boon.'

It is proposed by this bill to grant a pension to the beneficiary named as the widow of Thomas Connelly.

justice will be done in the case.

I should be sorry to be a party to a scheme permitting him to profit by the death of his patriotic son.

I am convinced that the Pension Bureau acted upon entirely satisfactory evidence when this claim was rejected upon the ground that the cause of death originated subsequent to the soldier's discharge.

This man was mustered into the service October 26, 1861.

I am of the opinion that the investigation there should be fully completed before special legislation is resorted to.

I return without approval House bill No. 6718, entitled 'An act granting a pension to William H. Starr.'

If such speculations and presumptions as this are to be indulged, we shall find ourselves surrounded and hedged in by the rule that all men entering an army were free from disease or the liability to disease before their enlistment.

I return herewith without approval House bill No. 6117, entitled 'An act granting a pension to James D. Cotton.'

I am entirely satisfied with the rejection of this claim by the Pension Bureau.

There is absolutely no allegation of any incident of his service which it is claimed is at all related to his sickness and disability.

There is no doubt that his disability existed to quite an extent at least before his enlistment.

There has been much testimony taken in this case, and a great deal of it is exceedingly contradictory.

I think upon all the facts presented the Pension Bureau properly rejected this claim, because there was no record of the injury and no satisfactory evidence produced showing that it was incurred in service and in line of duty, 'all sources…