Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-09-12
THE CAMPAIGN OF sLANDER
Anything to Beat Grant. y
POLITICAL TRACT No. 1.

Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks, who has
been United States Senator, and is a
candidate for Governor and United States
Senator on the Democratic Liberal reform
Greeley ticket is now, and has been tor
some weeks engaged in canvass Of the
State; and in his speeches he asserts that
President Grant vetoed a bill granting
pay for two horses to an Indiana Cavalry
soliier, and on the same day signed bill
granting 1900 900 acres of the public
lands to the Northern Pacific Raj road
Company, and he sought to arouse and
rehapS did arouse a feeling of hostility to
the President for his action in both cases.
1t is most singular that Mr. Hendricks
could have had the braZen harlihood to
all 1de to the Northern Pacific Rail Road
CDmpenY's land grant in the manner in
which he did. The bill which granted
the lands to that company became a law
on the 2nd day of July, 1864, as Mr.. Hen
dncks knows very well, as he was then
United States Senator, and made a speech
in advocacy of the Bill which may be
read in the Congressional Globe for the
lst Session of the 3Sth Congress page 1891.
He advocated it during its pendency be
fore the Senate and then voted for it on lis
final passage.
1t has been said that Mr. Hendricks, in
his speeches refers to a bill supplemental
rv To the original land grant, which was
pissed by thei4lst Congress after Grant
bscame President. But this Bill did not
grant a single additional acre to the Rail
road Company. Settlers in taking home
steads had in some cases. by mistake, To-
Gated on the lands granted to the com
plny, and the supplementary bill author
lied the company to take a sufficient
amount of lands elsewhere to make good
the lands so occupied by settlers and
1t autholzed the company to issue its own
bonds tll1t II might procure the necessary
tulds with which To build the road This
Bill first was introduced in the 10th Con
gress, while Mr.. Hendricks was still "a
Senator, and for this also he both spoke
and voted as the official Record OF the
/ Glabe testihes. 1t passed the Senate dur
ing that Congress, but falling to get
through the House, it did not become a
law, and was reintroduecl in the 4lst
Congress. 1t finally passed, and was APP
proved by President Grant on The 3Ist
day Of May, 1870. But it was bynn means
on the same day when the private Bill
was vetoed to which Hendricks alludes
tor that veto message bears date Feb 2Sth
1911 ten months af er the other bill was
signed. Ii may have been observed thai
Mr. Hendricks, in alluding to the vetoed
Bill, never gave the name of the person
in whose interest it was passed, nor the
num'er of the bill, and he purposely mis-
direcied any search for ii by asserting thai
( ii was vetoed on the same dav when the
other Bill was approved.
Iha wrteIA. hereot4 ul9n strict exami-
natit'a discovering that there Was no We
to message bearing date May sls,. 1870,
suspected that the intention was to pre-
vent any exposure of the same to public
scrutiny. and continued the search until
it was found bearing date as above stated.
The message itself shows what Mr. Hen
bricks already knew, that the President
did exactly right in veto'ng the Bill, as
the records in the Treasury Dcpt. show
that the soldier owes the government, and
not the government the soldier
A copy of the veto message is append
ed TO the complete vindication ofth Pres
idcnt, and to the shame and Ia umiliation
of Mr.. Hendricks
'To the House of Representatives:
II herewith return, without my approval. uouse
bill No. 1855 entitled An Act for the relief of Hen
ry NIlman. late private IN the Third Regiment Of
indiana Cavalry for the following reasons:
'Thc records of the War Department show that
Henry Whitman was mustered into the military
service April T. 1852; and that he mounted on Il
private horse. II appears from evidence presented
by himself that his horse died MAY IS 1862. that he
remounted himself on June :, 1852, and so conin-
ued mounted till October /. 1862. when his horse
killed By tine enemy, and that he was not after
wards mounted on private horse.
"Ipon presentinga claim against the United
States for the legal value of the two horses lost by
him in the public service, the claim, after nvesti-
CATION, allowed but it being discovered that he
was erToneously paid for the and risk of pri-
vate horse from MAY Is TO June 5, 1862 and from
October l. 1862, to April 80 1854 during which pc
RODS he had no horse in the public service, the
amount so overpad set off against his claim.
leaving the latter fully lqUidated and the claimant
indebted to the United States il amount not yet
refunded.
''The person named IN the act is not, in law or
equity entitled to the relief therein proyiVed, and
has no unsatisfed demands against the United
States. [. s. GRANT"
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
February IS, 1S71.)