The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1886-07-14
PENSIONS VETOED.


Tks President sends rwsnty-ons veto
Messages Of Private Pension BILLS 20 the
House.
WASHINGTON, July Z. President Cleve-
land yesterday afternoon sent twenty-one
veto messages to the House OF Representa-
tIves, twenty Of them dlsapprovlng Of prl-
vate pension bills and one vetolng bill pro-
vlding for the erection Of public building
at Duluth, MINI. The President in dlsap-
proving the Duluth building bill says:
'.After quite q careful examination Of the
public needs at the point mentioned, am
entirely satisfied that the public building
provided for In this bill is not Immediately
necessary. Not a little legislation has late
ly been perfected and very likely moro will
be necessary to increase miscalculated ap-
preparation for and correct blunders In the
construction of mauy of the public buildings
now In process of erection. While this does
not furnish q good reason for disapproving the
erection of other buildings where actually
necessary, It induces close scrutiny and
gives rise to the earnest wish that new pro-
jects for public buildings shall for the pres
ent be limited TO such as are required by the
most pressing necessities of the Governments
business"
OF the twenty private pension bills vetoed,
some that have already been rejected by the
Pension bureau, are dlsapproved because of
insufficient evidence to justify pension,
and others because the wounds or disease re-
sultlng in disability were not received or COLI
tracted while In line of duty. One note.
worthy case disapprOved by the President Is
that OF Lewis Scanland. Of Illinois, who Is
alleged to have contracted chronic diarrhea
while serving forty days in the
Black Hawk war in 1882. Scanland
filed his application In 1884 when he was
seventy-five years old. OF Scanland's cas-
the President, in disapproving 1t. says: II
am inclined to think 1t would have been a
fortunate thing If, in this case, 1t could have
so well with the chronic diarrh9a for fifty
two years, rs its existence in the case Of
this good old gentleman would prove. We
should then, perhaps, have less of 1t in
claims for pensions. The fact Is, In this
case there Is no disability which can be
traced to the forty days military service Of
fifty-fOur years ago and l think little, II
any, more infirmity than Is usually found in
men Of the age Of the claimant"
With these twenty vet0es the President
has disposed Of the 141 private pension bills
delivered to him on June 24-to-day being
the last day allowed him by law for their
consideration. The. preparation Of the
voluminous reports Of the history Of each
case which the President requires from the
Commissioner Of Pensions consumed all but
two days of the ten days allowed him, but
in that two days the President has personal
ly examined each bill and carefully studied
all the facts embodied in the reports of the
House committee az we'll as the special re.
ports prepared for his information by the
pension bureau. The result is twenty bills
vetoed yesterday, 100 approved and signed
| and one recalled. Of the 655 private pen
sion bills which the President has examined
to date sos have been approved and ninet,
have been vetoed.