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

hrs hlueleDeTger asked tnat tuo hue.
vote be postponed until tomorrow and
assent being refused, be made two or
three dila,ory motions. The vote was
taken at G O'Clock, resulting in Goodies
rejection by Is TO %.
Thereupon the Senate adjourned.
House of Representative.
Immediately alter the reading OF the
Journal the Speaker announced that
the regular order was the vote on the
demand for the previous question on
the motion to refer TO the COMMITTEE
on Invalid Pensions the message OF the
President vetoing the bill granting
pension TO Sally Ann Bradley.
Amid q good deal Of confusion Mr..
Burrows, Of Michigan, on the part OF
the Republicans, and Mr.. Matson, OF
Indiana, representing the Democrats,
enGeayored TO come to some arrange
ment 20 prevent time beng FILTERED
away with Toll-calls. Ii was finally
agreed that the demand for the previous
question should be withdrawn. and that
Mr.. Grosveno' Of Ohio, should be al
lowed fifteen minutes to oppoS the
motion to refer, with permission to
some Democrat TO reply if 50 desired.
Mr.. Grosvenor said that he desired
to heap no Iecrimination or condemna-
ton upon the President for his veto
messages. They were caused by
total misapprehension on the part OF
the President Of bis relations TO
the administration Of the Government.
lie tMr. Grosyenorl had read all Of
the yetoes coming from that pro-
| life source Of vetoes, and he thought
the trouble was that the President
understood that it was his duty
to examine carefully every act Of
Congress and if he, as a member OF
| Congress, would not vote for the bill, he
gave no sort Of consideration or weight
TO the fact that the legislative branch
Of the Government had acted silirma.
lively upon it. The President acted
upon the idea that the Executive had the
hight, and it was his duty, to decide alb
solutely on every question. Another
idea Of the Presidents was that no pri.
vate act should be approved unless there
was law authorizing it, wholly obliyious
to the fact that Congress was law
making power, and had the right to con-
fer a pension on anybody.
Mr.. !Grosvenor then detailed the facts
Of the special bill under consideration,
and commented on the fact, as he as.
serted, that the President had approved
the Fitz John Porter bill on the very
day that he had vetoed the bill granting
a pension to Sally Ann Bradley, mother
of four sons, two Of whom had died
on the battlefield and two Of whom
were in the hospital disabled.
Fitz John Porter would go on
the pension roll, while Sally
Ann Bradley would go to the poor
house; and this was a Government
which undertook to say that it was
dealing generously and literally with its
soldiers. The House was paralyzed aud
terrified by the veto of single msn--a
proposition tyrannical in the direction
Of absolute usurpation; in the direction
Of turning from its normal position the
Congress Of the United States, aud
turning over the administration Of the
generosity Of the Government to one
man. Applause on the Republican
| side.
Mr.. Matson merely remarked in re-
plv that he had just learned that IN
the Forty-seventh Congress a Republi-
can committee Of the Senate had re-
ported that the woman ought not to be
pensioned for the same reason as the
President said she ought not to be PEN
stoned. Applause on the Democratic
side.
Mr.. Long, Of Massachusetts,, sug-
eested that at that time the woman had
| A husband living who was in receipt OF
a pension. The bill and message were
then referred-yeas, l22; nays, Ill.
Matters then proceeded smoothly, and
the messages were read and referred
to appropriate committees without de-
bate or objection until the veto mes
sage on the bill granting pension to
Francis DemiDg was reached, when the
Republicans demanded, and were &C
corded, half an hour for debate.
Mr.. Boutelle, Of Maine, arraigned
the President for what lie characterized
as his crusade against the veterans Of
the country. lie regarded the policy
of the President as an open, clear, and
unmistakable announcement that the
Democratic party was opposed to recog
nizing the services and sacrifices OF mer
who gave their lives or health in order
that this great nation might be pre-
served. The time had come when tht
| Democratic party felt itself sufficiently
firmly seated in the saddle to utter it,
defiance and hostility to the men wht
went to the front 10 save the Union II
its hour Of peril. lie thought he could
see the muse of history looking at th'
grand procession Of Chief Magistrates
and be could imagine the expression ofin
efable disgust which would pass oyei
the features of the Goddess Of Amer
can Liberty when she should look upoI
the panel upon which was depicted tht
present Chief Magistrate sitting in hi
shirt.sleeyes, with bis collar unbutton
ed ,.perspiring over the yetoes OF th'
pallry pension bills Of the heroes Of tn,
war. Applause He then proceeded
to read from the Record to show tina
all legislation favorable to the soldier
had emanated from the RepubllcaI
party, and had been passed by Repnb
lcan votes against the solid votes Of tn
representatives of the solid South, ant
against almost the solid vote of the De
mocratic party.
Mr.. Brumm, cfPennsylyania, charac
terized the President as great obli:era
tor OF segregated rights and the groa
representative Of absolute power, an
said the Democratic party Of tn
House, the party which was opposed t
Capitalization, stood by humbly an,
said to the President Not my will
but thine be done" He continued t
berate the Democrats, which he did i
such an energetic manner as to cal
forth rounds of applause an
laughter from both sides Of tn
T House. He denounced them a
poltroons and towards who OK