an application for a pension to the Pension Bureau, which was
rejected.

Although it is stated in a general way that he was traveling on business
connected with his recruiting service at the time of his injury, he has
given no information as to the precise purpose of his journey; and it is
conceded that he was guilty of such negligence that he had no right of
action against the railroad company.

It also appears by the medical certificate upon which his resignation
was permitted that the fracture, not necessarily serious, was never
properly treated. It seems, too, that he remained in the service ten
months after the injury.

I am unable to discover why a pension should be granted in this case,
unless the Government is to be held as an insurer of the safety of every
person in the military service in all circumstances and at all times and
places.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 22, 1888_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I return without approval House bill No. 8174, entitled "An act granting
a pension to Ellen Sexton."

The husband of the beneficiary served in the Union Volunteer Army from
October, 1862, to June, 1864, having been during the last seven months
of his service in the Veteran Reserve Corps. He was discharged for a
disability which, to say the least of it, certainly had no relation to
his military service, unless the Government is to be held responsible
for injury arising from vicious indulgence.

He died in the city of Cork, Ireland, May 29, 1875, of consumption,
certified by the health authorities there to have been of seven years'
duration.

GROVER CLEVELAND.

EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 22, 1888_.

_To the House of Representatives_:

I return without approval House bill No. 2215, entitled "An act granting
a pension to Charles Glamann."

This beneficiary served in an Illinois regiment from September, 1864, to
July, 1865, and his record shows no injury or sickness except an attack
of remittent fever.

He filed a claim for pension in 1880, alleging that he was struck
accidentally with a half brick by a comrade and injured in his left arm.

There is no doubt that whatever disability he thus incurred was the
result of a personal altercation between himself and the man who threw
the brick.

The extent to which the power to grant pensions by special act has been
made to cover all sorts of claims is illustrated by the fact that, in
the light of many pensions that have