Evening star., 1886-07-07

REASONS WHY HE wTrHHoLps HIS APPROVAL
OF THE TWENTY VETOED BILLS.

The President yesterday sent twenty more
pension vetoes to Congress. These were out of
the batch OF 141 bills sent to him on June 24th.
One hundred and twenty were approved and
one was withdrawn by the House. He gives
his reasons Tor each Veto He sets IL forth as a
principle that the government cannot under
take to recompense soldiers for all the natural
Ills that befau them In alter life, not consequent
upon their service. With relation to the pro-
iessional "friend OF the soldier" he says that
tenderness towards those who have fought the
nations battles is q natural sentiment of all
good citizens, and that no one Is entitled TO es-
pecial credit for feeling IL. The blatant and
noisy selfassertion of those who, from motives
that may well be suspected, declare themselves
above all Others friends OF the soldier cannot
discredit nor belittle the calm, steady and
ahectionate regard of a grateful nation.
The bill granting pension TO Francis DEM
ing, on account of blindness, with which he
which it was alleged resulted from rheumatism
contracted in the war, Is vetoed because IL does
not appear likely that the blindness was in
any way due 10 military service.
VIM. Dermody's bill Is vetoed because, it Is
said. the wound was inflicted by a guard in
attempting to prevent the claimant from de-
SertlDg. The reason given tor the veto Of Jas.
Carrolis bill is that he received his wound
while in the act OF pundering.
Edward NJ. Harrington, the President thinks,
Is not entitled TO pension because his injuries
were received during an encounter with one Of
the men OF his own regiment. The ground
upon which Lewis w. Scanlank asked Tor a
pension was that he contracted chronic diar-
rhG in the Black Hawk war, in which he
served from April 13. 1882, 10 May I'd, 1882.
this The President SAYS: 81 am inclined 10
think it would have been fortunate thing II
Ia this case IL could have been demonstrated
that a man could thrive SO well with the
chronic ularrnoea for hity-two years, as its
existence in the case of this good old entleman
would prove We should tnen perhaps have
less of il in claims for pensions. The TACT Is in
this case there is no DISABILITY winch can be
traced TO the torty days military service Of nifty
four years ago. ana think little II amy more
lDnrmlty than is usually found In men oI the
age of the claimant"
SENATORIAL CRITICISM OF THE vEToEs.
The Senate pensions committee will ask that
the private pension bills that orig mated in the
Senate and were vetoed, be passed over the
vetoes. In the case OF Harriet " elcn, of W hom
the President said, IN Netoing the bIli for her
relief, that prior 10 uer marriage with a soldier
she was the vile Oh a man whom She could only
say she supposed 10 be dead, the committee say
that no question has been raised of tne legality
OF the second marriage, aud that 'there is
nothing ln the evidence TO Justify the slur
which the President casts upon The CHASTITY of
TINS widow and the leg gltilnacy vi her seven
Iatherless children. Pensions have heretofore
frequently been granted in cases similar to
this. Human nature cries out aloud for the
allowance oI pension in such a case, and II this
woman, with her seven small children. Is To be
deprived Of ii, your committee are at least glad
that the Responsibility rests elsewhere.
Alfred Denny is the man vino claimed TO
have been injured by contact with the horn OF
his saddle, and in respect to MS case the Presi-
dent Incidentally Remarked: These saddles
were very danger contrivances." The pen
sions committee says: The sneer in the veto at
the wounds received by SO many OF our gallant
cavalry curing their long rides and furious
charges in the war indicates u state OF mind
that incapsci tates al least temporarily, offi-
cIal from considering imparlialy pension
claim. 1t would be well il the uorns of pubic
dies could get simple justice in these times Oi
peace."