EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 23, 1887_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 10082, entitled "An
act to increase the pension of Margaret R. Jones."
The beneficiary mentioned in this bill is now receiving the highest rate
of pension allowed in cases such as hers under the general law.
All the information which is available to me fails to furnish any reason
why this pension should be specially increased, except the general
statement in the claimant's petition that she is in necessitous
circumstances and that the rate now allowed her is insufficient for her
support.
The further statement in the petition that her husband's death "was
caused prematurely by his endeavor to comply with unusual,
disrespectful, and indefinite orders" to go to League Island Navy-Yard
certainly does not in all its bearings furnish conclusive proof that his
widow's pension should be increased beyond that furnished others in her
situation.