St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-07-07
VETS AT THE VAULTS.
Vndismayed By the Presidents Vetoes,
They Lingsr About the Treasury's
Surplus Money Bags 81.
The Case of Tiller of Kentucky Called Up
In the House and Postponed y
After Debate.
Man Who Served In the Army
Over Fifty Years Ago Wants
Relief,
Because He Has Begun To Suher
From the Effects OF Forty Days
Soldering.
The Pension Issue.

WASHINGTON, July Gin the house,
petitions were presented from the Pennsyl-
vanIa Knights of Labor asking legislation
TO promote the interests of labor. Referred.
Mr.. Tauibee, Kentucky. called up the report
OF the committee OH invalid pensions upon
the veto messages of the president on the Dill
granting pension to Carter w. Tiller. He
dsavowed any purpose Of criticisin2 the
president in the exercise OF his constitutions!
right, or of raising any war on his meCnous
or style in the veto of pension bills. He then
proceeded to state the facts i'll the case 70
show that the president was acting under a
misapprehensien when he based his veto on
the ground that the claimant was not de-
pendent upon his son, on whose
account the pension is clalmco
for support. He also quoted from aihdavlts
to show that while it was tue that the son
was borne on the rolls as a deserter, he was
at the time that the charge was made against
him confined as L prisoner in Jemersonvlile
prison. he admitted that the president had
acted honestly upon the facts before him,
but since the veto additional facts had come
to light showing young T1llers hospltal
record at AnderSonville. Mr.. warner OF
Missouri inquired whether these additional
records had not been accessible to the presl-
dent. Mr. T;iulbee replied that
THE RECORDS WERE ACCESSIBLE
to anybody VINO would take the trouble to go
TO the war department and search over the
musty prison records of the Confederacy,
but the president had acted on
the written statement Of the adju-
tant general that there was no such
record found in his office. Subsequent to
the veto the record was found, but the veto
could not be withdrawn. Mr.. Beach OF New
York suggested that it would not be proper for
tie house TO override the veto on the strength
OF facts the president did not have before
I, RI. ba baH from
the bill. The proper thing to do was to in
trOduce new BILL Mr.. Matson of Indiana
moved that the further consideration or the
matter be postponed until Friday next. and
for few moments there was confusion in
the hail. Mr.. Matson and MIR. Willis of Ken
tn clZy vainly endeavoring to state the reasons
why they desired the postponement, and the
Republicans demanding immediate action.
The motion to postpone was agreed to, yeas,
lit, nays 113.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE
on invalid pensions considered the pres-
Dental veto messages at its meeting to-day.
Representative Conger called up the bill
fol- the relief of John Luce, whose claim is
based on injuries received from being
thrown forward on the ponmel Of his sad
die, but after discussion it was decided that
the bill did not embody case strong
enough to pass over the veto. and it was
dropped Probably all the vetoed pension
bills which originated in the senate, with
one exception. will be reported from the
committee Oh pensions with recommends
ton that they do pass, the presidents veto
notwithstanding. The one exception Will
be covered by new bill. the vetoed one
being defective in consequence of clerical
error.
THE CASE OF HARRIET WEIGH
is the one in respect to which the President
said:
Though this widow admits that prior to her
marriage with the deceased soldier she had
married another man whom she could only
say she believed to be dead.
The senate committee says in its report
The question is raised in the euidence rs to
the legality of the marriage, which seems tc
have resulted in long Capitalization and the
birth of seven children. The claimant was
married to the soldier June Z. 1868. There is
nothing in the evidence to justify the slul
which the president casts upon the chastity
OF this widow and the legitimacy of her sever
fatherless children. Pensions have hereto
fore been granted in cases similar to this
Human nature cries out aloud for the allow
anee of Il pension in such a case, and is this
Woman with her seven small children is to be
deprived of it, your committee are at least
glad that
THE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS ELSEWHERE.
III reporting upon the case of David w.
Hamilton, the committee reprints its
original report in which it says: q
This farce OF rejecting claims for pensions
OF men who have rendered years OF active
service because they were unable to dis
charge the duties of Il soldier. so long in
obliged ill, is also crime, and it is time tho
dictates of common sense should be adopted
instead of some of the rules so long in force
in the pension office. There is imperative
need of reform, III this respect, and has beer
for many years.
Alfred Denny is the man who claimed t.
have been injured by contact with the horr
of his saddle. and i'll respect to whose cast
The president incidentally remarked
'"rhose saddles were very dangerous con
trivances." The pension committee says:
The sneer in the veto at the wounds re-
celvcd by so many Of our gallant cavalry
during their long rides and furious charges il
the war indicates Il state of mind that in
capaciates, at least temporarily, an officia
from considering impartially a pension claim
1t would be well if the horns of public indig
nation cauld be so applied that our soldiers
could get simple justice in these times o.
peace.
The president to-day transmitted to thu
house messages announcing his disapprova
of twenty private pension bills. Lewis w
Scanland filed his declaration for pension
in 1884, alleging that he contracted chronic
diarrh9a
IN THE RIACKHAWK WAR.
The records slow that he served from
April Is. 1882, to May 2S. 1882. In veto
ing the bill for his relief the presiden
says:
am inclined to think 1t would have been
fortunate thing if, in this case, it could hav,
been demonstrated that man could thrive s.
well with the chronic diarrhea for fifty-tw
years, as its existence in the case of this goo
old gentleman would prove. We should then
perhaps, have less of it in claims for pen
sions The fact is in this case there is n
disability which can be traced to the fort
DAYS military service of ffty-four years age
and think little, if any more nfirmity thai
is usually found in men of the age Of tn
claimant.
LII vetoing the bill granting a pension /,
Francis Deming, who claims that he
CONTRACTED BLINDNESS,
The result of rheumatism incurred in til
service, the president says there seems t.
he 10 testimony showing the soldiers coli
dtion from the time of his discharge II
1880, period of fifteen years. The presi
dent continues:
After nineteen years has elapsed since hi
a;scharge from the army.a pension is claime
for him upon Il very shadowy allegation o
the incurence of rheumatism while in servic
coupled with the startling proposition tina
this rheumatism resulted, just previous to hi
application, i'll blindness. Upon medical eA
animation it appears that his blindness wa
caused by amaurosis, which is gene rally &c
repted as an affection Of the Opt
nerve. 1 ain satisfied that fai
examination of the facts in this cas-
justiEes the statement that the bi
under consideration can rest only upon tn
grounds that aid should be furnished to thi
ex-sod:er because he ser.ed Ill the arm,
and because he long time thereafter be
came blind, disabled and dependent. Non
Of us are entitled to credit for extreme ter
derness and consideration toward those VIII
fought their countrys battles; these ale sci
timents common to all good citizens the
lead to the most benevolent care on the par
Of the government and deeds of charity an
mercy in private life. The blatant AIT
noisy self-asscl ton of those who, from mo
lives that may well be suspected, declar
themselves above all others friends of tn