EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 6, 1888_.
_To the House of Representatives_;
I return without approval House bill No. 6431, entitled "An act for the
relief of Van Buren Brown."
The beneficiary named in this bill was discharged from the Army
September 11, 1865.
He filed an application for pension in the Pension Bureau May 19, 1883,
alleging chronic diarrhea, rheumatism, spinal disease the result of an
injury, and deafness.
His claim was very thoroughly examined and reopened and examined again
after rejection, and rejected a second time.
The case is full of uncertainty and contradiction. Without discussing
these features, I am entirely satisfied that a pension should not be
allowed, for the reason, among others, that three careful medical
examinations made in 1883, 1884, and 1886 failed to disclose any
pensionable disability.