Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-07-10
FEARLESS VETOER
=, sovyrHIyG so NRw IN THE PRESDRN-
l. TIAL LINZ
That the Republicans Can't Get Over II
Tbsv Endsa7Or to Make Point
Agsins! the President but Are
DOwni By Cold Figures

WASHINGTON, July 9-In the House,
-, r,sdiatelv after the reading of the Jour
n,I the Speaker announced that the regu-
- ,r,Isr was to vote on the demand for
,ps nreyious question on the motion to re
:. ~, Presidents veto of the bill grant
-, , peusion to Sally Bradley, to the
r,,orittec on Invalid Pensions.
vr Burrows, of Michigan, and Mr..
,f.,s,p of Indiana, tried to come to some
,-,r,.ment to prevent fiibustering.
,n,ra great deal of confusion it Was
ii that the demand for the previous
S,-,;op should be withdrawn and that
n. c,r,syenor, of Ohio, should be allowed
seen minutes 10 oppose the motion to re
g. with permission to some Democrat to
reply if 81 desired.
Mr. Grosyeuor said he desired to heap
u, elimination or condemnation upon the
prssfj,ut for his veto messages. The
President acted upon the idea that the Ex-
.,r,ive had right, and it was his duty,
=, decide absolutely ON every question.
,u,thar idea OF the Presidents was that
n, p-iy.,tr act should be approved unless
,b.r. WIS a law authorizing 1t, wholly OBJ
Tyi,,I, 10 the fact that Congress was the
I,u..maEing power and had right to con-
f-r a pension on anybody.
Mr. Mat-on merely remarked in reply
,b,t h. had lust learned that in the Forty
s.r,nrb Congress Republican committee
oftb, senate had reported that the woman
,,,,,br not Ia be penSiOned, for the same
-sI,,ps fb, President said he thought she
orght not 10 be penSioned. Applause on
the Democratic side.
Nr Long, Of Massachusetts,, suggested
That a that time the woman had hus-
hand living who was in receipt Of pen
,i,n. The bill and message were then re-
.erred-ycas l22, nays Ill.
ANOTHER ONE.
When the message of the bill granting
psnSion To Francis Deming. was reached,
the Republicans demanded, and were ae-
rorIri half an hour for debate. Mr.. Bou-
trIIe. of Maine, arraigned the President
,or what he characterized rs his crusade
AGAINST the veterans of the country. The
time had come, he said, when the Demo
rr,,i,. uarty felt itself sufficiently firmly
s-,fed i'm the saddle, to utter its defiance
and hostility To the men who went to the
front 70 S,lvr the Union.
Mr. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, said that
th., yituperatiOn Of the President was all
wrnnr. He asserted his entire confidence
in the integrity of the President, and in
his desire To dO his duty.
After further debate the message WAS re-
terrrd without objection.
THE NEXT AND LAST
veto message upon the Speakers table was
then laid before the House. 1t was a mes
SAGE yetoing the bill granting pension to
Joseph Romiser and as this case is regarded
as presenting specially strong features the
Republicans determined TO make hight
over its reference.
Mr.. McComas, of Maryland, said the
President had declared that he thought
the Committee on Invalid pensions had
reported that ROmi>er had filed an apph-
cation fora pension which had been reject
ed by the pension office. The President
,,iI that RomiSer had never filed clam.
If this were true the committee was IN
deed convicted OF gross careleSSneSS
,nl doubtless the President made the
statement 10 illustrate the loose methods OF
the committee and his own accuracy IN
examining these private pension bills. ii
TIN, charge were untounded then the Presl-
dent was convicted of still grOsser careless
Ness because the report of the committee
had warned him that there was case IN
the office.
WHAT M'COMAS DID.
He Mr. McComasl had in his hand the
yerv bundle OF pension papers IN case OF
Joseph Romiser The jacket recorded al
the proceedings from the time Of the filing
Of the claim in 1879 until the re
lection. The records showed tnat
the pension office found that
though R0miSer was severely wounded DS
a Minnie bail passing through his head
and Ilra. becauSr he WAS not mustered IN,
the oairc was constrained to reject the
claim When the Presidents veto came
10 the House declaring that there were no
such papers he had telephOned to the Pen
sion office and had no trouble in getting
them. WHY had not the President done
likewise Why had he reproved tue COM
mittce for what now proved to be hls own
rareIrssntSss The committee had been
diligrut. the President had been dlllgent,
Congress had been Just; the President de
MED Justice 10 person whose case he had
Never considered.
Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, also vigorous
l. assaulted the veto
Mr. Warner. of Ohio, believed this to be
ameritorious case and to be in line OF pre-
cedeutS, but he thought it ought to be re-
ierrrd 10 the committee.
THE PRESIDENTS FEARLESS COURSE.
Mr.. Snowden. of Pennsylvania, COM
mended the President for his fearless course
and thought that the other side was max
iug blundcr in trying to make the discus
sion party question.
Mr. Springer said he would not discuss
the pending bill and the yetOe message Ol
the President thereon except to call atten-
ton to the tact that il was first vetoed IN
the pension office in in lSS2 by CommlS-
SlOncr Dudley. But the gentlemen on the
other side had taken advantage OF the dls'
cu>sionS to attack the President and the
Democratic party and to charge that they
were opposed to granting pensions. Moth
ing could be farther from the truth.
4 SPEAKING COMPARISON.
During the entire eight years OF General
Grants administration only 643 private
pensions were granted. During the Forty
seventh Congress, which was Republican n
both branches, only Isl private
pension bills were passed. But the last OF
Forty-,ighth Congress, which contained 9
majority "a Democrats in this House, ano
when the gentleman from Indiana Mt
Matsonl was Chairman of the Committee
on Invalid Pensions, there were 552 OF sucf
bills passed and become laSs, and during
IL -, hnr lnsI