We are not, therefore, left to the consideration of the question whether death from the use of morphine to allay pain can be charged to the disability incurred, for if death resulted from sunstroke it will hardly be claimed that it was in any way related to such disability.
GROVER CLEVELAND.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, October 16, 1888
To the House of Representatives:
I return without approval House bill No. 6201, entitled "An act granting a pension to John Robeson."
The beneficiary named in this bill enlisted August 8, 1862, and was discharged for disability on the 21st day of November, 1862, after a service of a little more than three months.
In the certificate of disability upon which his discharge was granted the captain of the beneficiary's company states that "he has been unfit for duty for sixty days; that the soldier represents that he has not done efficient service since enlistment by reason of phthisic, from which he has suffered since childhood, but has grown worse since entering the service."
The surgeon of the regiment states in said certificate that "the soldier has asthma, with which he has been afflicted from his infancy."
Upon this certificate, based necessarily so far as his previous condition is concerned, this man procured his discharge after doing but very slight service.
He filed an application for pension in the Pension Bureau in October, 1879, basing his claim upon the allegation that he contracted asthma in September, 1862, about a month after he entered the service.