EXECUTIVE MANSION, _February 14, 1889_.
_To the Senate_:
I return without approval Senate bill No. 2665, entitled "An act
granting a pension to Charles J. Esty."
A bill in precisely the same words as the bill herewith returned was
approved on the 8th day of July, 1886, and under its provisions the
beneficiary is now upon the pension rolls.
It is supposed that the bill now under consideration was passed by the
Congress in ignorance of the previous statute. A duplication of the act
would manifestly be entirely useless.