Second, I do not believe that any considerable portion of the
ex-soldiers who, it is supposed, will be beneficiaries of this
appropriation are applicants for it, but, rather, it would result more
in a measure for the relief of claim agents and middlemen who would
intervene to collect or discount the bounties granted by it. The passage
of this bill at this time is inconsistent with the measures of economy
now demanded by the necessities of the country.
U.S. GRANT.
[Footnote 92: Pocket veto. This message was written in the President's
room at the Capitol, but failed to reach the House of Representatives
before the final adjournment of Congress. The original is filed at the
Executive Mansion.]
[Footnote 93: "An act to equalize the bounties of soldiers who served in
the late war for the Union."]
[The following messages were sent to the special session of the Senate
convened by proclamation (see p. 324) of February 17, 1875.]
SPECIAL MESSAGES.
WASHINGTON, _March 8, 1875_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
I nominate in the Medical Department, Army of the United States,
Benjamin F. Pope, assistant surgeon, to rank from May 14, 1867.
Note.--October 5, 1870, Assistant Surgeon B.
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