The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1886-07-15
PENSIONS VETOED.
The President sends Twenty-ons Veto
Messages Of Private Pension Bills to the
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The President sends Twenty-ons veto
Messages Of Private Pension Bills to the
House.
WASHINGTON, July President Cleye-
land yesterday afternoon sent twenty-one
veto messages to the House OF Representa-
tives, twenty of them disappearing of pri.
vate pension bills, and one vetoing n bill pro-
yldlng for the erection Of a public building
at Duluth, MINI. The President In dlsap-
proving the Duluth building bill says;
after quite 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 n little legislation has late
~ been perfected and very likely more will
be necessary 10 increase miscalcnated 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 a good reason for disapproyingt the
erection of other buildings, where actually
necessary, 1t induces close scrutiny and
gives rise TO the earnest wish that now pro-
jects for public buildings shall for the pres
ent be limited to such as are required by the
most pressing necessities of tie Governments
business
OF the twenty private pension bills vetoed,
some that have already been rejected by the
Pension bureau, are disapproved because OF
insufficient evidence TO justify n pension,
and others because the wounds or disease re-
sulting in disability were not received or con
tracted while in line Of duty. One note
worthy case dlsapproyed by the President Is
that of Lewis Scanland, of Illinois, who is
alleged to have contracted chronic diarrhpa
while serving forty days in the
Black Hawk war In 1852. Scanland
filed his application In 1884 when he was
seventy-fve years old OF Scanland's case
the President In disappearing II. says: II
am inclined TO think II would have been
fortunate thing II, in this case, It could have
been demonstrated that man could thrive
so well with the chronic diarrhTa for fifty
two years, as its existence in the case Of
this good old gentleman would prove. We
should then, perhaps, have less o. II In
claims for pensions Tie fact Is, in this
case there is no disability which can be
traced 10 the forty days military service OF
fifty-four years ago and / think little, II
any, more inGrmity than is usually found In
men of the age of the claimant
With these twenty vetoes the President
has disposed Of the al 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
yoluminous reports of the history OF each
case which the President requires from tho
Commissioner of Pensions consumed all but
two days OF tho 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 tile
House committee as well Is the special re-
ports prepared for his. information by the
pension bureau. The result Is twenty bills
vetoed yesterday, 100 approved and signed
and ono recalled. OF the 655 private pen
TO date sos have been approved and ninety
have been vetoed.