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he acting as provost guard at the time. Upon this allegation the case
was reopened at the Pension Bureau.
In reply to a letter from the Bureau the captain of claimant's company
stated that he had no knowledge of such an injury. The same officer,
in a letter dated February 25, 1887, expresses the belief that the
disability of the applicant, if any existed, was caused by the
injudicious use of mercurial medicine self-administered for venereal
disease contracted at Augusta, Me., in January, 1864, and that such was
the rumor among his comrades when he was sent to the hospital.
I can not believe that an injury was sustained such as was specified
by the applicant in 1880 and that nothing was said of it either in the
claim made in 1864 or in 1870. In the absence of this or some other
definite cause consistent with an honest claim we are left in the face
of some contrary evidence to guess that his arm was injured in the
service.
The application of this beneficiary is still pending in the Pension
Bureau awaiting further information.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _July 16, 1888_.
_To the House of Representatives_:
I return without approval House bill No. 9520, entitled "An act for the
relief of Mary Fitzmorris."
It is proposed by this bill to pension the beneficiary named therein, as
the widow of Edmund Fitzmorris, under the provisions and limitations of
the general pension laws.
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