THE PENSION OFFICE is an immense red brick structure 400 x 200 feet.

Here is conducted the vast business of dispensing about $140,000,000 a year to nearly a million pensioners. The chief architectural adornment of the building is a broad frieze of mili tary figures which passes all the way around the building, typifying the resistless onrush of the national armies.

A COMPILATION

OF THE

MESSAGES AND PAPERS

OF THE

PRESIDENTS

Prepared Under the Direction of the Joint Committee
on Printing, of the House and Senate,
Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-Second Congress
of the United States

(With Additions and Encyclopedic Index
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VOLUME VII

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