But it seems to me the case presented here can not be reached by any
theory of pensions which has yet been suggested.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _April 16, 1888_.
_To the Senate_:
I return herewith without approval Senate bill No. 549, entitled "An act
granting a pension to Hannah R. Langdon."
The husband of the beneficiary named in this bill entered the military
service of the United States as assistant surgeon in a Vermont regiment
on the 7th day of October, 1862, and less than six months thereafter
tendered his resignation, based upon a surgeon's certificate of
disability on account of chronic hepatitis (inflammation of the liver)
and diarrhea.
On the 12th day of June, 1880, more than seventeen years after his
discharge, he filed a claim for pension, alleging chronic diarrhea and
resulting piles. He was allowed a pension in January, 1881, and died of
consumption on the 24th day of September, in the same year.
Prior to the allowance of his claim for pension he wrote to the Bureau
of Pensions a full history of his disability as resulting from chronic
diarrhea and piles, and in that letter he made the following statement:
I have had no other disease, except last September (1880) I had
pleurisy and congestion of my left lung.
From other sources the Bureau derived the information that the deceased
had suffered an attack of pleuro-pneumonia on his left side, and that
his recovery had been partial.
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