I believe, however, that through inadvertence the duplication of the
edition of these maps issued in 1886 has been directed by this joint
resolution instead of the edition of 1887.
The map of 1886 was published at a cost of $1.25 per copy.
The map of 1887 will very soon be issued at a cost of $1 per copy, and
the publishers have offered to print an enlarged edition at the rate
of 95 cents for each map. This map will be later, more correct, more
valuable in every way, and cheaper than that issued the previous year.
Upon these facts I return the joint resolution without approval, in the
belief that the Congress will prefer to correct the same by directing
the publication of the latest, best, and cheapest map, and reducing the
amount appropriated therefor.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _August 14, 1888_.
_To the Senate_:
I return without approval Senate bill No. 2653, entitled "An act
granting a pension to Mary Curtin."
The husband of this beneficiary was mustered into the military service
October 8, 1862, was wounded in the right arm, and was discharged
September 3, 1863.
He was pensioned for his wound to the time of his death, September 17,
1880.
The physician attending him in his last illness testified that the
deceased was in the last stages of consumption when pneumonia intervened
and caused his death.
I do not understand that this physician gives the least support to the
theory that the wound for which this soldier was pensioned was in the
slightest degree connected with his death, and there seems to be nothing
in the case to justify the conclusion that such was the fact.
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