EXECUTIVE MANSION, _October 17, 1888_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I return without approval House bill No. 11222, entitled "An act
granting a pension to Elizabeth Heckler."
The husband of this beneficiary was pensioned for asthma, and there is
no doubt of the propriety of such pension, nor is there doubt upon the
evidence that this affection continued up to the time of his death.
But he died of acute inflammation of the bladder and chronic enlargement
of prostate gland. There is no proof that these causes of death were in
the least complicated with the difficulty for which the deceased was
pensioned, or any other trouble which was the result of military
service.