EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 22, 1888_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I return without approval House bill No. 3016, entitled "An act granting
a pension to Mary F. Harkins."
The husband of this beneficiary was discharged from the military service
in 1865, and was pensioned for a gunshot wound in the right foot at the
rate of $6 per month.
He died in 1882, seventeen years after his discharge, "from rupture of
the heart, caused by the bursting and parting of the fibers of the right
ventricle."
The claim is now made that the death was the result of the wound in the
foot.
An application to the Pension Bureau was rejected on the ground that the
death cause was not the result of the wound.