The multiplication of
these structures involves not only the appropriations made for their
completion, but great expense in their care and preservation thereafter.
While a fine Government building is a desirable ornament to any town
or city, and while the securing of an appropriation therefor is often
considered as an illustration of zeal and activity in the interest of a
constituency, I am of the opinion that the expenditure of public money
for such a purpose should depend upon the necessity of such a building
for public uses.
In the case under consideration I have no doubt the Government can be
well accommodated for some time to come in all its business relations
with the people of Zanesville by renting quarters, at less expense than
the annual cost of maintaining the proposed new building after its
completion.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 19, 1886_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I hereby return without approval House bill No. 1990, entitled "An act
granting a pension to John Hunter."
The claimant was enrolled July 20, 1864, and was discharged by
expiration of his term of service July 13, 1865.
During four months of the twelve while he remained in the service he is
reported as "absent sick." His hospital record shows that he was treated
for intermittent fever and rheumatism. In 1879, fourteen years after his
discharge, he filed his claim for a pension, alleging that in May, 1864,
he received a gunshot wound in the right leg while in a skirmish.
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