The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1886-05-20

Plain Words from the President.
The Washington correspondent Of the
New York Times gives the following ac-
count OF the reception of the Presidents
vetoes OIL the sth by Congress
President Cleveland treated the House
Of Representatives to day to some much
needed. but not altogether welcome, sug-
gestions. The Forty-ninth Congress has
been exceedingly liberal in its treatment
of private pension bills, which have been
passed by the hundreds, week after week,
and sent to the President for approval at
a rate which has made it utterly impossible
for him to give them examination within
the time allowed by the Constitution for
their approval or rejection. Mr.. Cleveland
told this to the House to-day in a message
in which he vetoed bill to increase the
pension of an eX-soldier named Hill. This
message was preceded by one disappearing
of bill increasing the pension Of Mrs.
Abigail Smith. In the latter the Presi-
dent pointed out that Mrs. Smith. who
is worthy pensioner, was entitled to the
increased pension under the widows pen
sion law passed in March, by superseding
the general act, simple deprived her of the
increase for nearly two months. The
reading of this message was received with
much laughter at the expense of the Com
mittee on Invalid Pensions, which had re
ported the bill.
When the reading Of the second mes
sage was begun. however, the laughter
quickly ceased, and it was not long before
its terms were receiving very much closer
attention than is usually paid to q Presi-
Dental message of any kind. At least 324
of the 325 Representatives are interested
in the passage Of private pension bills. and
to ii good many Of those it was not pleas
ant to listen to the plain censure OF q
President. The usual hum of cOnversa-
ton among the members ceased entirely
when they listened to the criticisms upon
the loose methods of overriding the bu-
reaus especially charged with the business
of passing upon pension claims, and with
the same silence they received the rebnke
contained in the Presidents analysis of
the character Of more than 200 bills sent
to him in one day. Many of the members
felt also the force Of the closing paragraph
Of the veto, which pointed out the fact that
the particular bill to which it applied PEN
stoned Andrew J. Hill when Congress
meant to pension Alfred ]. Hill. The
Congressman had not been prepared for
such a sharp message, and when its read
ing had been finished everybody seemed to
be in trance. The Speaker waited a
moment and then remarked that, as he
heard no motion, the question was wheth-
er the bill should pass notwithstanding the
objection of the President. This woke up
the House, and somebody moved that the
message be referred to the Invalid Pen
sion Commission, which was promptly or
dered.
The Rev. Geo. H. Thayer, of Bourbon
md, says 'sBoth myself and wife owe
our lives to Shiloh's Consumption Cure"
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The constitutional objection is always
the first to be brought and the hardest to
maintain against popular legislation.
Group, whoopng cough and Bronchitis
Immediately relieved by Shiloh Cure.
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When everybody and his wife have been
voted a pension both houses should take