Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-07-10

would forget all these speeches so tney
might reserve their campaign eloquence
for awhile. He could speak, because
he was not IN the same category. He
was not looking for votes, but all tn
rest were. The House should turn
its attention TO business If 1t did not,
it would be here until the last OF Au-
gust. This yituperstion and abuse oil
the President was all wrong. lie as
serted bis entire confidence IN the IN
tsgrity Of the President and in his de-
sire to do his duty, and he reserved to
himself the right to approve or disap-
prove the vetoes. Suppose that the
members quit quarrelliDg and turn their
attention to public business. Let them
remember Whist they had been taught
by their mothers.
Let dogs delight 10 bark and bite,
For God has AIDE them SO;
Let beais and lions gtOwl aud fight,
foF tia their nature To-;
TUt iiiue children should not let
Their angry passions rise:
Their little bands were never MADE
10 strstch each others eyes
Laughter
MIR. Allen, Of Mississippi, thought ne
should apologize for discussing PEN
sion matters, as he had been Coincide
rate private. 1t was said that Con-
federates ought to have thought of this
matter of pensions twenty-five years
aeo. He acknowledged that az the
beginning of the war he had not given
the matter that due consideration to
which it had probably been entitled
tLaughier.l lie had been quite a
young boy then, but along about the
third year of the war be began to
think seriously Of it, and 50
much had be been impressed
with the fact that tho course ne
was pursuing would bankrupt the
United States Government in pension
ing the widows Of soldiers he was kill
ing that finally, gun in hand, he retreat
ed across five or six States, with the
enemy in his front, rather than STAY the
whole army. Laughter The contest
had finally come to the point that he
saw that he would have TO Stay the
whole army or give up, and he laid
down his gun like a man and went
home. lie wanted to call atten-
ton to little incident which
occurred when be was on his
way home. lie had gone into
the war at the age of fourteen and
had remained four years, and ne was
pretty tired Of fighting. There was
another boy with him as he was going
home who had not been in the war so
long, and who wanted him to 60 across
a river, in Alabama, and fight with
Kirby Smith. He had had about
enough fighting and did not wish to go,
and they were arguing about the mat
ter when they saw an old gentleman
coming across the field and waiting for
them at the fence. When they reached
him he was very much interested to
know about the surrender and 4" about
our institution" 81 told him." con-
tinued Mr.. Allen, il dOleful tone that
our institution was gone. Laughter. J
lie asked me what | was going to do.
told him was going home. lie said,
young man, you right you 90 home
and 60 to ploughing. My experience
is that when you fight and get beaten
you ought TO 90 to something else.
Then be began to philosophise, and he
said Boys, this has been a mighty
bad war. We have lost a good many
Of our best men. We have a great
many one-legged and one-armed soldiers
in our midst who can scarcely earn a
living, and a great many widows and
orphans. Society has been terribly do
moralized, and our homes have been
desolated and devastated. Boys, this
has been a terrible war, but we car
stand all this. The only thing terrible
is that some id fools who have
not made much reputation out Of the
war will be wanting to throw this thing
up to US for the next twenty-five years.
Loud laughter ] make no applica
ton of this incident" said Mr.. Allen
=. but it does look like the words o
prophetic wisdom"
The message was then referred with
out objection.
The next and last veto message upor
the Speakers table was then laid betor'
the House. II was a message yetoIn.
the bill granting a pension TO JOSEPH
Romizer, and as this case is regarded
as presenting specially strong features
the Republicans determined to make
/ Sight over its reference.
Mr.. McComas, of Maine, who origi
nally introduced the bill, made an ex
PLANTATION of it, and Analysed the vet
message Of the President. The bill, h
said. had passed both Houses Wit
unanimitv. The President declare
that though the Committee on lnvall'
| Pensions had reported that Romizer ha
| fled claim for pension, which ha
been rejected by the Pension Office
there was no such case in the Office
The President said that Romizer Ia
never filed n claim. If this were true
the committee was indeed convicted Q
gross caIelessneSs, and doubtless III
| President made the statement to Illus
trate the loose methods Of the committe
and his own accuracy in examining thes
private pension bills. If this chars
were unlounded. then the President va
convicted Of still grosser carelessness
because The report Of the committe
bad warned him that there vase a cas-
in the Office. lie (McComas) held IN hi
hand the very bundle Of pension paper
in the case of Joseph Romi1er. tn
packet recorded all the proceeding
rom the time Of filing the claim i
! 1879 until its rejection. The record
showed that the Pension Office foun
that though Romi2er was severed
wounded by a minnie-ball passin
through his head and face, because b
was not mustered in the office wa
" constrained to reject the claim
When the Presidents veto came to tn
House declaring that there were n
such papers he had telephoned
the Pension Office and had had n
trouble in getting them. Why had M
!he President done likewise? Why ha
he reproved the committee for what no.
proved to be his own carelessness. Ii
committee had been diligent the Pr
sident had been negligent. Congre;