Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-05-26
FUUR PENSION ELLIS vEToED.
claims Allowed 10y Congress That Had Been
keieCted bN the Een.inn RmreAu.

Rejected by the Pension Bureau.
The president has vetoed four private pen
sion bills granting pensions to Dudley H..
Branch, Louis Melcher Edward Ayres, and
James &. Chandler. OF the bil; granting a
pension to Edward Ayres the president
says:
ellis application for pension has been re,
jected by the pension bureau on the ground
that 1t was proved ON special examination
of the case that the claimant was injured by a
| fall when boy, and that the injury com
planned OF existed prior to his enlistment
There is not particle Of proof or a fact stated
either in the committees report or the rec
ords in the pension bureau, so far as they are
| brought to my notice, tending to show that
| the claimant Was in hospital or under medi-
cal care "A single day during the whole term
OF his enlistment; but, on the contrary, il
appears that the claimant served in his regi-
ment two years and nearly eight months after
the alleged injury aud until he was mus
tered ont
1t is represented to me by report from
the pension bureau that after his alleged
wound, and in May or June, ls65, the claim
ant deserted, and in July of that year was ar
rested in the state of Indiana aud returned to
duty without trial If this report is correct
the party now seeking pension at the hands
OF the government tor disability incurred in
the service, seems to have been capable of
considerable physi al eNertiOn, though not
very Credltahle, within a few weeks after he
claims to have received the injury upon
which his application is based"
As to the act granting pension to James
&. Chandler the president says
at appears from the official records that
the proposed beneficiary first enlisted on Aug
2, 1861, and about nine months thereafter
on June |, 1862, was discharged on account
OF disability arising from chronic bronchitis.
Notwithstanding the chronic character OF his
alleged disability he enlisted again on Jan.
3, lsti, seventeen months after such dis
charge. tie was finally mustered out on
sept 10, 1860 lie first applied for pension
under the general law in May, I>'ia, alleging
that in April, lS62 he was run over by a
wagon and njured in hisankle. This acct
dent occurred during his first enlistment,
but instead OF the injury having been then
regarded a disability, he was discharged
thereafter on account OF chronic brOn-
chitis. 1t appears from the committees
report that his application was rejected,
aud that another was afterward made
alleging that the claimant had been afflicted
with typhoid fever contracted in Nav, lstIg
resulting in "rheumatism and disusa of the
back IN region of kidneys" This applica-
tion was also rejected, on the ground that
any disability that might have arisen from
the cause alleged q" had not existed in a mem
slonable degree since the date of filing the
claim therefor which was February TO-
1883. There still remained an appeal to con-
gress and probably there were not wanting
those who found their interests in advising
such an appeal, and who had at hand Con-
Rressiohal precedents which promised ia
NoraDle result That the parties interested
uld not mlScalculate the chances of success
i demonstrated by the bill now before me-
which, in direct opposition to the action OF
the pension bureau, grants a pension to a
nau who, though he was discharged from
enlistment Tor certain alleged disability,
made TWO applications tor pension based
upon two distinct causes, both claimed to
exist within two months prior to such dis
charge, and both different from the one upOn
which he accepted the same and not with
standing the TACT that the proposed benefi-
Clary, alter all these disabilities had occurred
passed an examination as to hls physical tit
hess Tor reenlIstment actually did reenlist
ana served until finally mustered out at the
close of the war. II any money ia TO be
gwen thls man from the public treasury, it
slon."
The act granting a pension to Dudley b.
Branch Is returned for these reasons
This clal Is based upon the allegation
as appears by the committees report, that
the person named in the bill has a hernia
and that ON June 9, 1862, while in the mill.
tary service and in the line of duty ain get
ting over a fence he fell heavily, striking his
leit side In December, 1873, thirteen and A
nan M years thereafter, he filed at application
lor pension, which was rejected by the
pension bureau on the ground that there
was no record OF the alleged hernia and the
claimant was unable 10 furnish satisfactory
evidence of its origin in that service. The
lact Is stated in the committees report that
late IN the year 1868 this soldier was trans
ierred to the invalid corps, aud the records
snow that lie was thus transferred for a dis
ability entirely different from that upon
which he now bases his claim. lie was
mustered out in September, lSGi, at the end
OF his term of service. | am convinced that
the rejection OF this claim 10y the pension
bureau was correct and think its action
| should not be reversed"
Inc act granting "A pension to Louis Melcher
| was returned Tor these reasons:
| "lhis claimant enlisted on the 25th day OF
May, 1861, and was discharged for disability
| ON the 10th day of August, 1861, having beeI,
| IN the service less than three months. The
oeruhca'e OF the surgeon OF his regiment,