Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-07-09
In the Senate There is also a Re
port on a Vetoed Pension
Bill.
CONGRESSIONAL


vetoed bill granting q pension 10
Margaret ID. Marohand. widow Of. Com
modore Marchand. The committee
repeats it's former report 10 the case and
recommends the passage of the bill over
the presidents objection. Referred.
MI. b oar offered q resolution calling
on b president for Information as to
THE seizure or detention in any foreign
larts Of any American vessel and the
pretexts or alleged causas therefor, and
what effects have been made to provide
redress for such seizure and
prevent their recurrence. The resolu-
tion went owe
Mr.. Cali offered o resolution calling on
the president to direct the American
rsprsse NATIVE in Mexico to investigate
the statements made in the newspapers
that citizens of the United States we're
confined IN Mexican dungeons without
trial for alleged offenses against the laws
Of Mexico and that their final trial been
postponed without cause, and requiring
the United States government, if such
statements were fonnd to be true, to
demand the trial Of such persons and
their humane treatment.
HOUSE..
Washington, Jnly 0-Immediately
after the reading OF the journal the
speaker announced that the regular
order was o vote on The demand for the
previous question on the motion to refer
to the committee on invalid pensions
tho message Of the president vetoing
the bill granting a pension to Sally Ann
Bradley.
Amid great confusion Mr.. Burrows,
Of Michigan, On the part of the repub-
licans, and Mr.. Mason. OF Indiana,
representing the democrats, ~endeavored
to coEne to some arran cement to prevent
the time being frittered away with roll
calls.
f was finally agreed that the demand
for the previous question should be
Withdrawn and Mr.. Gr,svenor, OF Ohio,
should be allowed fifteen minutes to
oppose the motion to refer. with permia-
sion to some democrat to reply, If so
desired. 81
Mr.. Grosvenor said he desired to
make no recommendation nor con-
domination N the president for his veto
messages. They were caused by a
total Misrepresentation on the
part of the president of his
relation to the administration OF
the government. He (Grosvenor)had
read oil the vetoes coming from that
prolific source of vetoes. He thought
the trouble was that the president un-
deratood that it was his duty to examine
carefully every act OF congress. and
as he, as o member oil
congress, could not vote
for . bill be gave no sort OF considers
tion or weight to the fact that the legis-
lative branch of the government had
acted sffirmatively uponit it. The president
acted on an idea that the executive had
q right and it was his duty to decide
absolutely on every question. Another
idea OF the presidents was that no
private, not should be approved unless
there was q law authorizing it, wholly
obiivions to the fact that congress was a
Iaw-making power and had the right to
confer o pension on any body. Grosyenor
then detailed the facts as to the
special bill npder consideration
and then commented on the fact, as he
asserted, that the president had
approved the Fitz john Porter bill the
very day he vetoed the bill granting q
pension to Sally ann Brady, mother Of
four sons, two Of whom died on
the battle field and two were
in the hospital disabled. Fitz John
Porter would go on the pension roll,
when Sally Ann Bradley would 90
to the poor house, and
this was the government which
undertook to say it was dealing
generously and literally with it's soldiers.
The house was paralized and terrified by
the veto ofa single man, q proposition
tyrannical In the direction Of absolute
eh 0AAoCtAOu Vi buEulUR
from its normal position the congress of
the United States and turning over the
administration Of generosity of the gov.
eminent to n man. Applause on the
Democratic side.]
MI. Mason merely remarked, in reply,
that he had just learned.thalin the forty
seventh congress q republican commit
tee OF the senate had reported that the
oma ought not to be pensioned, for
the same reasons the president said he
thought she ought not to be p~snsioned.
lApplause on the democratic side.l
Mr.. Long, OF Massachusetts,, suggested
that OF that time the woman had a hus-
band living, who was in receipt Of a
pension.
The bill aud the message were then
re alteard. Yeas, 1l2; nays. II.
Miners Ready to Make Trouble.
Danville Ills, July 9-The striking
minera Of Grape Greek are still in q
1tate OF intense excitement over the re-
port that negro miners are to be- i'm