EXECUTIVE MANSION, _December 19, 1888_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I return without approval House bill No. 5080, entitled "An act for the
relief of C.B. Wilson."
This bill directs the Postmaster-General to credit to the beneficiary
therein named, who is the postmaster at Buena Vista, in the State of
Colorado, the sum of $225, being post-office funds forwarded by him to
the deposit office at Denver, but which were lost in transmission.
A general law was passed on the 9th day of May, 1888, authorizing the
Postmaster-General to make allowances and credits to postmasters in
precisely such cases.
On the 8th day of September, 1888, under the sanction of that law, the
credit directed by this bill was made.
It is plain, therefore, that the bill herewith returned ought not to
become a law unless it is proposed to duplicate the credit therein
mentioned.