I therefore recommend the immediate enactment of such legislation as will authorize the assembling of the legislature of that Territory in special session at an early day, so that provision can be made to meet the difficulties herein…

Therefore I recommend the appropriation of such sum of money as in the judgment of Congress shall be deemed adequate and proper to defray the cost of the inauguration of this statue.

These bills I have approved on the assumption that the claims were meritorious and that by the passage of the bills the Government has waived full proof of the facts.

A sufficient reason for the return of the particular bill now under consideration is found in the fact that it provides that the name of Andrew J. Hill be placed upon the pension roll.

The policy of frequently reversing by special enactment the decisions of the Bureau invested by law with the examination of pension claims is exceedingly questionable.

It must be admitted that in some cases justice and equity can not be done nor the charitable tendencies of the Government in favor of worthy objects of its care indulged under fixed rules.

I am convinced that the interposition by special enactment in the granting of pensions should be rare and exceptional.

She would thus lose for nearly two months the increase of pension already secured to her.

This proposed legislation does injustice to a very worthy pensioner who was on the pension roll at the time of the passage of the law.

I return without my approval House bill No. 1471, entitled 'An act increasing the pension of Andrew J. Hill.'

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in the Territory of Idaho be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement.

If the design of this bill is to restore to the city named the privileges permitted by the law of 1880, it seems to be entirely unnecessary.

I can not see that anything is gained by this legislation.

In the absence of such officers the proposed legislation would be nugatory and inoperative.

The measure under consideration does not with sufficient care specify and limit the officers and the parties who it is proposed to invest with discretion in the disposition of dead bodies.

I herewith return Senate bill No. 349, entitled 'An act for the promotion of anatomical science and to prevent the desecration of graves,' without my approval.

The laws by which it is permitted should, in deference to a decent and universal sentiment, carefully guard against abuse and needless offense.

But instead of exacting the bond from the medical colleges, such bond is required of 'every physician or surgeon before receiving such dead body.'