The examiner., 1886-07-10
MORE PENSION VETOES.
THE BILL FOR PUBLIC BUILD.
ING VETOED.
Reasons In Detail for some of the
Vetoes-The President Examin.
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Reasons In Detail for Some OF the
vetoes-The President EXAMINE
- Ing a Large Number OF Bills.
WASHINGTON. July THE President
transmitted to the House messages an
nouncing his disapbroval of twenty private
pension bills, and the bill providing for
the erection of public building at Du-
luth, MINI. The last named bill is vetoed,
the President says, because he is entirely
satisfied that the building provided for is
not Immediately necessary. and he adds !:
'tNot little legislation has lately been
perfected. and very likely more will be
necessary to increase miscalculated appro-
priations for and correct blunders-in the
construction OF many of the public build
fngs now in process of erection
The bills granting pensions to Aretus
F.Loonis and William III. Nevil are dis
approved, because of the Presidents $
belief that they are already in receipt of
sufficient pension. The bills to restore the
names OF II. l.. Kyler and Abner More.
head to the pension roll are disapproyed
as cases without merit. Nine bills, grant
Ing pensions to Sally A Brady, Mrs. Mar
garet A. Jacoby, Roxana v. Rowley
Fannie e. Evans, James L, Irwin, Maria
Cunningham, Mary Karstetter, William
Dermody, and Robert H. Stapleton, are
injuries for which pensions are proposed
were not incurred in the military service
and are not the result thereof.
James CarrolPS bill is vetoed on the
ground that at the time the claimant re-
ceived his wound he was engaged in plum
dering in the neighborhooI of Watauga,
n. c., and wss hunted down by the home
guards; Joseph Romiser's bill. on the
ground that he was not IN the military
service of fha Cnvprpn1ort Cafbari.o
McCarthy's bill. on the ground that her
husband died from gross heedlessness in
taking an overdose of colchicun: and
Elizabeth McKay's bill, on the ground
that she has made no application 10 the
Pension Office.
In announcing his disapproval of the
bill granting pension to Edward NJ. Har-
rington who was injured IN the line of
by reason of an attack by fellow soldier
in 1864 the President expresses the opin-
ion that the Government ought not to be
called upon to insure against the quarrel
some propensities CT individual soldiers
nor to compensate one who is worsted in
a fight or even in an unprovoked assault.
Lewis w. Scanland filed his declaration
for pension in 1884, alleging that he
contracted chronic diarrhoa in the Black
Hawk war. The records show that he
served from April Is, 1882. to May %,
1882. In veroing the bill for his relief
the President says:
l am inclined to think it would have
been a fortunate thing if in this case il
could have been demonstrated that a man
could thrive SO well with the chronic
diarrhRa for 50 years, as its existence in
the case OF this good old gentleman would
prove. We should then. perhaps, have
less of it in claims for pensions, The fact
is in this case there is no disability which
can be traced 10 the forty days military
service of 81 years ago, and think little,
if any more, inffrInity than is usually
found in men of the age of the claimant.
The President has been engaged during
the past two days in personally examining
the 141 special pension acts delivered to
him on June "a, which, by reason of the
time required by the Pension Bureau to
examine its records concerning them, were
not ready till Saturday, for his consider
alton. He has carefully studied all the
facts presented in the reports made ty the
Congressional committee in each case. and
the special reports prepared for his infor-
nation by the Peniion Bureau, which are
very voluminous and complete. The
result of his investigation is 20 bills vetoed.
and 100 approved and signed, one having
been recalled. During this session of
Congress SOS special pension acts have
become laws, and 90 have been vetoed.