Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-07-23
PR!vA1

President Cleveland sends Twenty Morl
vetoes to the HOusc-The House Com
mittee to Recommend the Passage of Al
the Bills Over the VetOes.
WASHINGTON, July president Cleve
land yesterday sent to tho House twenty
vetoes OF private pension bills. In one od
| them he takes occasion to alluds to the
calm, steady and affectionate regard OF a
grateful nation toward the soldier as pref
cradle to the noise made by politicians
who pretend to be above all Others bis
friends. He continues:
Legislation has been at the present SEES
sion of Congress perfected which consid-
erably increases the rate OF pension in GER
tain cases Appropriations have also been
made of large sums tor the support of mo-
tional homes where sick, disabled or needy
soldiers are cared for, and within a few
days a liberal sum has been appropriated
for the enlargement II increased accom-
mediation and convenience of these in
situations. Ali this is no more than should
be done. But with all this and with the
blunders of special acts which have been
pushed, granting pensions in cases where.
for my. part, | am willing to confess that
sympathy rather than judgment has often
led to the discovery of a relation between
! amsconstrained by q sense of public duty
to interpose against establishing a prin
ciple and setting u precedent which must
result in unregulated, partial and unjust
gifts Of public money under the pretext Of
indemnifying those who suffered in their
means of support as an incident Of mill
tary service"
prostInnt rloyo0oul hoe lr,s.. Az ~o.k
two days, personally examined the 14l
"a, which, by reason Of the time required
by the Pension Bureau to examine its rec
ords concerning them. we're only ready on
Saturday for his consideration. He has
carefully studied all the facts pre-.
sented i'll the reports made by
the Congressional committee in each
case and the special reports prepared for
his information by the Pension Bureau,
which are very voluminous and complete.
The result OF his investigation is 12O bills
approved and signed, and twenty men,
TONED above as vetoed, IL having been
recalled. During this session OF Congress
565 special pension acts have become lows,
and ninety haye been vetoed.
The House COMMITTEE on Invalid PEN
sions considered the Presidential veto mes.
sages at it's meeting yesterday. Probably
all the pension bills which originated in
the Senate, with one exception, will be re-
ported from the Committee on Pensions
with recommendations that they do
pass, the Presidents veto not~ithstand-
ing. The one exception will be covered by
a new bill, the veto being detective in con.
sequence OF a clerical error.
Alfred Denny is the man who claimed to
have been injured by contact with the norm
OF his saddle, and in respect to whose case
the Observation-Disclosures those
saddles were very dangeroa contrivances."
The Pension Committee saws:
.'The sheer in the veto at the wounds re-
ceived by so many of our gallant cayalry
during their long rides and furious charges
in the war indicates a state of mind that
incapacitates, at least temporarily, an
official from considering impartialiy q
pension claim. 1t would be we'll if the
horns of public Indignation could be 80 APP
piled hat our soldiers could get simple
justice in these times of peace"