EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 5, 1888_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I return without approval House bill No. 8291, entitled "An act granting
a pension to Julia Welch."
The husband of the beneficiary named in this bill served in the Army
from December, 1863, to May, 1866.
He never filed an application for pension, and died February 24, 1880,
of inflammation of the lungs.
The claim filed by his widow for pension alleged that her husband
suffered from chronic diarrhea and disease of the heart and lungs as
results of his army service.
The claim was rejected by the Pension Bureau on the ground that they
soldier died from an acute disease which bore no relation to any
complaint contracted in the Army.