Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-10

! country
CALLED TO ORDER.
Mr.. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, bespoke
! for the President decent respect and de-
cent speech. He did not know what the
| pending bill was about. It's merits had
not been presented, but the House had re-
| solved itself into political meeting. The
gentlemen must understand that before
the election came the people would forget
! all these speeches, so they might reserve
! their campaign eloquence for awhile. He
! could speak because he was not in the
same category. He was not looking for
votes, but all the rest were. The House
should turn its attention to business. II
it did not. 1t would be here until the last
OF August.
VITUPERATION WRONG.
This vituperation and abuse OF the
| President was all wrong. He asserted
his entire confidence in the integrity of
the President and in his desire to do his
duty, and he reserved 10 himself the
right to approve or dIsapprove Vetoes.
suppose that the mem bers quit quarrel
ing and turn their attention to the public
business. Let them remember what they
had been taught by their mothers:
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God has made them so;
Let bears and lions grOwl and fight,
For tbs their nature to.
But little children shouldn't let
Their angry passions rise;
Their little hands were never made
To scratch each others eyes.
Laughter.
A CONFEDERATE PRIVATE.
Mr.. Allen, Of Mississippi, thought he
should apologize for discussing pension
matters, as he had been a Confederate
private. 1t was said that COntederates
ought to have thought of this matter of
pensions twenty-five years ago. He ac-
knOwledged that, at the beginning of the
war, he haG not given the matter
that due consideration to which it
mad probably been entitled. Laughter.
He bad been quite young
boy then, but along about the third year
OF the war be began to think seriously OF
it, and so much had he been impressed
with the fact that the course he was pur-
suing would bankrupt the United States
government in pensiOning the widows of
soldiers he was killing, that finally, gun in
hand, he retreated across five or six States
with the enemy in his front rather than
slay the whole army. Laughter.
GAVE rHE ARMY A CHANCE.
The contest had finally come to that
point that he would have to slay the
whole army or give up, and he laid down
his gun like man and went home. He
wanted to call attention to little incl
dent which occurred when he was on his
way home. He had gone into the war at
the age OF II and had remained four years,
and he was pretty well tired OF fighting.
There was another boy with him as was
going home. who had not been IN the war
so long, and who wanted him TO 90 across
the river in Alabama and fight with
Kirby Smith. He had had about enough
| fighting, and did not wish to 60, and they
were arguing about the matter when
they saw an Old gentleman coming across
the field and waiting them at the fence.
THE OLD GENTLEMAN's INTEREST,
! When they reached him he was very
much interested to know about the sur
render and ''about our institution" 81
/ told him." continued Mr.. Allen in a dole
| ful tone ''that our institution was gone
! Laughter He asked me what | was
going to do. told him l was going home.
! He said: young man, you are right.
| You go home and go to blowing. My ex-
| perience is that when you fight and get
| beaten you ought to 90 to something ese.'"
TERRIBLE WAR.
Then he began to phlOsophize, and he
| SAID: "BOys, this has been a mighty bad
war. We have lost good many Of our
| best men. We have great many one
! legged and One-armed soldiers in our
midst who can scarcely earn a living, and
great many widows and orphans. So
ciety bas been terribly demOralized and
our homes have been desOlate and devas-
tated. Boys, this has been a terrible war;
but we can stand all this. The only thing
terrible is that some id fools who have
not made much reputation out or the war
Will be wanting to throw this thing up to
us for the next twenty We years" Loud
laughter | make no application Of this
I 1 l., =
prophetic wisdom.
The message was then referred without
| objection.
THE LAST ON THE TABLE.
The next aud last veto message upon
the Speakers table was then laid before
the House. 1t was the message vetoing
tDe bill granting a pension to Joseph Ro-
miser, aud 0s this case is regarded AS pre-
senting specially strong features the Re-
publlcans determined to make fight over
its reference.
MIR. McComas, of Maryland, who origi-
nally introduced the bill, made an eX-
PLANTATION of it and analyzed the veto mes
sage of the President. The bill, he said,
had passed both Houses with unanimity.
The President declared that
though the Committee on Invalid
Pensions had reported that Mr. Romiser
had filed claim for a pension. which had
been rejected by the Pension Office, there
was NJ SUCH case in the office. The
President said that Mr.. Romiser had
never filed "A claim II this were true the
committee was indeed convicted of gross
carelessness, and doubtless the President
made the statement 10 illustrate the loose
methods Of the committee ana his own
accuracy IN examining these private pen
sion bills.
THE PRESIDENTS POSITION
If the charge were unfounded, then the
President was convicted Of still grosser
carelessness, because the report Ci the
committee had warned him that there was
a case in the Office. He Mr.. McComas)
held in his nand the very bundle OF pen.
sion papers in the case OF Joseph Romi-
ser. The packet recorded all the proceed
in2s from the time Of filing the claim IN
1879 until It's rejection. The records showed
that the Pension Office found that though
Mr.. kOmser was severely wounded by
a minnie ball passing through bis head
and face, because he was not mus
tered In the office was '.cOnstrained" IN
reject the clam. When the Presidents
veto came to the House declaring that
there were no such papers, he had tee-
phoned to the Peusion Office and had had
no trouble In getting them. Why had NOT
the President done likewise2 Why had
he reproyed the committee for what now
proved To be his own Carelpganesgp