EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 14, 1888_.
_To the Senate_:
I return without approval Senate bill No. 2653, entitled "An act
granting a pension to Mary Curtin."
The husband of this beneficiary was mustered into the military service
October 8, 1862, was wounded in the right arm, and was discharged
September 3, 1863.
He was pensioned for his wound to the time of his death, September 17,
1880.
The physician attending him in his last illness testified that the
deceased was in the last stages of consumption when pneumonia intervened
and caused his death.
I do not understand that this physician gives the least support to the
theory that the wound for which this soldier was pensioned was in the
slightest degree connected with his death, and there seems to be nothing
in the case to justify the conclusion that such was the fact.