EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 4, 1886_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 8556, entitled "An act
granting a pension to Abraham Points."
This soldier enlisted August 11, 1864, and was mustered out June 28,
1865.
He was treated during his short term of service for "catarrhal,"
"constipation," "diarrhea," "jaundice," and "colic."
He filed an application for pension in 1878, alleging that some of his
comrades in a joke twisted his arm in such a manner that the elbow joint
became stiffened and anchylosed, and that his eyes became sore and have
continued to grow worse ever since. There is no record of either of
these disabilities.
The application was denied upon the ground, as stated in the report from
the Pension Bureau, that the claim "was specially examined, and it was
shown conclusively, from the evidence of neighbors and acquaintances of
good repute and standing, that the alleged disabilities existed at and
prior to claimant's enlistment."
I am satisfied from an examination of the facts submitted to me that
this determination was correct.