The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
PRESIDENTIAL vETOES.

All huI1lulStTHtlOu.- UtOOt.
PRESIDENTIAL vETOES.
Tho Foolish, Careless and Injurious Leg
tsiation Which the sturdy Chief Execu-
tive Is stopping Before 1t Eats Into tho
U. y. Treasury.
The President has sent another batch
of vetocs to the Senate. One of them
stopped a bill which was almost gro-
tesque illustration of the carclessness
with which Congress passes these
measures. 1t directed the name of a
soldiers widow to be placed on the
pension roll, subject to the pension
laws. II turns out now that her name
is on the pension roll under the law
already, and has been there since Feb
ruary of this year, her pension dating
from November of last year; so that
the bill seems to have been drafted and
passed in sheer ignorance of the facts
of the widows case. TO send up such
bill for the Presidents signature is,
of course, to say the least, disrespect-
full.
Another of these bills puts on the
pension roll the widow of Commo-
| dore in the navy who died of heart
disease ten years after the war, and
her application had already been re-
| jected by the Pension Bureau because
of her failure to show that the disease
of which her husband died had any
connection with the war. Another
gives soldier already in receipt of a
pension, $4,000 of back pension, for a
period of fifteen years, during which
he had made no claim on account of
incapacity on account of disease, and
removes the limit of time fixed by the
law of 1879, or in other words repeals
it for the benefit of this one man. An
other gives a widow pension on ac-
count of the death of her husband from
inflammation of the stomach ten years
after the war, and disregards the fact
that her application is pending before
the bureau. Another provides for the
erection of United States buildings at a
cost of 100000, at Sioux City, Ia, not
because the business of the Govern
ment at that point calls for them, but
because the population is growing rap
idly, and there is already consider
able number of other buildings in the
town. Another orders substantial
and cOmmodious public building, with
fire-proof vaults" at a cost of $780,
protect IL from adjacent fires. which
Is to nrovide accommodation for the
post-oflice. and internal revenue Office
and pension Office at GAINESVILLE, o.
tbough tbe only Federal offico in tho
place is the post.office.
What gives these hills imnortsnce is
not so much the amount of money
thew vote away. ne the careless reck.
loss snir;t in wbicb tbev ore concocted
and nassed On This Do;nt Tho Presi-
dent in voto;nr ono of than observas
verv forciblv.
"Ir sno.l,nv =, t,s nro,,.or,r. .,a al.
advised grants of pensions which have lately
been presented to me for approval, have
ton in reoo9nition of the fact that n large
proportion Of these bills have never bcon
of Uonuress hut nre tbe etasr res,,t RrahcS ns
nominal sessions held for the express
purpose Of their r., consideration s der and attended
sSective houses Of The lie ierisariTe brancb r"i or
| Goyernment.
| Ihus, IN considering these bii!s, have not
| felt that was aided by the deliperate Judg-
ment OF tne CONGRESS; ana when l have
|
Dlils presenied. l nave hardly regarded my
action as dissent from the conclusions Of
'"I p'o tI' ue".. s' ~
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mno a'I ~ pau hI; h aa;. sa,alles ior attena'
& ~ Tut vnv "JU hnvo BUSINESS mnt az "hsh
sons;o" o" "' f'rn;shad @ do tho v' aS 'nu pas,
s;mo,o so ,,;ano ns 'sof,i ,nI oomy WIN
nu P;uoo Snht u, utou, M ~ lsia.,In, or oht
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nno"o 't;o .Hos' Oo oe .ho 10 'na oonSierau h.,,
nUPo, vpos .,U u .o ~ ;Sio i ond on's Iau VI Doa
tL" Isa;, az Wv 'h;ot ,uG an" iaMy W ma.oL
tho;,. .ho uS,e' Innae d mm'1h p'sses .niousn
.no,' i..no n"u' "''''i 'noii OWN r"ieS VI
piTIcuuae. TI':U
ms oone,ueiou aS s'a'e Vi hihu'
poo1 pa; W. tIe oasG' e4uaiiy serious, "hicn
eno i,es,oeH. uta;., a'sD ~ 'oI.ies : On "nen nc
n"Ss ,"ous;nn m 'eITs t;1I. '"e "iuo" De Arai'
pension uii'
pg of psaSs psaSGn nri3p 81 prnSipo in inc grant
merit and encourages those who for gair
urge urge honest men men to become dishonest. This
t6at as AGAINST the pnblc treasrv yhf fbs peops
questionable expedients are allowable"
That is to say, not one such pension
can be granted without diffusine
through considerable portion of the