EXECUTIVE MANSION, _January 19, 1887_.
_To the Senate_:
I return without approval Senate bill No. 2269, entitled "An act
granting a pension to William Dickens."
The beneficiary named in this bill filed his application for pension in
the Pension Bureau in 1880, and in December, 1886, the same was granted,
taking effect from the 15th day of October, 1864.
If the bill herewith returned should become a law, it would permit the
payment of a pension only from the date of its approval. Thus, if it did
not result in loss to the claimant by superseding the action of the
Pension Bureau, it is plain that it would be a useless enactment.