Fifteen years after this brilliant service and this terrific encounter
with the measles, and on the 28th day of June, 1880, the claimant
discovered that his attack of the measles had some relation to his army
enrollment and that this disease had "settled in his eyes, also
affecting his spinal column."
This claim was rejected by the Pension Bureau, and I have no doubt of
the correctness of its determination.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 23, 1886_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I herewith return without approval House bill No. 6266, entitled "An act
granting a pension to Philip Arner."
It is conceded in the application for a pension made by this claimant
that he was perfectly well prior to his enlistment, during his service,
and for a year thereafter. He was discharged in July, 1864, and the
proof is that he was taken seriously ill in the fall of 1865, since
which time he has been troubled with lung difficulty.
He filed his application for pension in 1883. This was rejected on the
ground that the sickness which produced his disability having occurred
more than a year after his discharge from the Army, it can not be
accepted as a result of his military service.
There is absolutely no allegation of any incident of his service which
it is claimed is at all related to his sickness and disability.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _June 23, 1886_.
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