The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-03
PENSION vEroEs.
An Attempt To BE Made Pass Some OF the
Bills Rejected by the President.

An Attempt To BE Made Pass Some OF the
Bills Rejected by the President.
WASHINGTON, July 2.--The House committee
on invalid pensions has resolved to attempt to
pass, over the Presidents veto, the bill granting
q pension to Andrew j. Wilson, of New York.
and Dir. Sawyer to-day reported the measure
back to the House, giving notice that it would
be called I'D to morrow 1t appears, from the
report of the committee, that Wilson was draft
ed into the army. Notwithstanding his allegation
that he was suffering from deafness and an eye
complaint In the service he contracted rheu-
matism and kidney disease, on which he
based an application for pension. His
application was rejected by the Pension
Bureau on the ground that he was disabled be-
fore be was enlisted. which was also the reason
for the veto. The committee take the position
that, under the circumstances, the government
ia estopped from setting up the claim of prior
disability DR. Taulbee. who is member OF
the invalid pension committee. also reported
hack the bill granting pension to T. w. Illler,
with the recommendation that 1t be passed over
the Presidents veto. This is the case of the
Louisville policeman whose application for pen
sion dependent parent denied by the
Pension Bureau on the ground that the depend
ency of the claimant was not established
Senator Miller to-day presented petition of
Y. Y. asking that the bill to pension the widow
# Capt. Daniel T. Schenck may become a law
Notwithstanding the veto of the President The
petition is largely signed and sets forth that the
petitioners aware that the death of the hus-
and of the claimant the result Of his
% in the army that the widow did not apply for
pension while in good financial circumstances,
and that when reduced in fortune she filed her
application, but being unable to comply with
certain technicalities of the law, her claim was
rejected, and she then appealed to Congress to
grant ner what she was justly entitled to.
The President, to-day, returned to the House,
without approval the act granting pension to
William Boone. 1t appears that Boone, who
had never made application for pension to the
Pension Bureau, enlisted in August, 1862, was
in action in November of the same year. and
was taken prisoner and at once paroled Dur
Ing his parole he took part in the Fourth of
July celebration at Aurora, ILL.,, in 1863, and was
terribly injured by the discharge Of a cannon.
which he was assisting to manage In review
ing the case, the President says ne is unable to
discover any relation between the accident and
the military service, or any reason why, If a
pension is granted as proposed by this bill. there
should not also be pension granted to any of
the companions of the claimant who CHANGED to
be injured at the same time He says further:
IA disabled man and wife and family in need
are objects which appeal to the sympathy and
charitable feelings of any decent man; but it
seems to me that it by no means follows that
those ntrusted with the peoples business and
the expenditure of the peoples money are jus
titled in so executing the pension laws that
they shall furnish means of relief in every
OF distress or hardship