"This is only one of many similar cases."
The remarks of the Adjutant-General adverse to the passage of the bill
are concurred in.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
ALPHONSO TAFT, _Secretary of War_.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, _March 31, 1876_.
_To the Senate of the United States_:
For the reasons set forth in the accompanying communication from the
Secretary of the Treasury, I have the honor to return herewith without
my approval Senate bill No. 489, entitled "An act for the relief of
G.B. Tyler and E.H. Luckett, assignees of William T. Cheatham."
U.S. GRANT.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, _March 30, 1876_.
The PRESIDENT:
Referring to the letter of the 25th instant, written by your direction,
transmitting Senate bill No. 489, "for the relief of G.B. Tyler and B.H.
Luckett, assignees of William T. Cheatham," and requesting my opinion as
to the propriety of its approval by you, I have to say that there are no
data on file in the Department, so far as I can learn, which indicate
that the amount it is proposed by this bill to refund to the assignees
of Mr. Cheatham was wrongfully collected or that the amount should be
refunded.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in his report to me in reference
to the matter, says:
"The reimbursement to the United States by said Cheatham of the salary
paid to this storekeeper by the collector of internal revenue for the
months of December, 1869, and January, 1870, was in accordance with the
provisions of joint resolution of March 29, 1869 (16 U.
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