Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1886-07-08
THE PENSION VETOES.

Yesterday was great day in the lower
House of the National Congress, when
the opposing sides acquitted themselves
OH the Presidents pension vetoes, very
much as the parrot and monkey did, and
both can now say with the parrot, 1--WE
had h Off time" The President
returned without his approval large
batch OF weak pension claims, and con
trary to the rules, Matson moved the
immediate reference of one OF them to
the Committee on Invalid Pensions, with
instruction to report it back on or before
next Monday. The discussion of the
motion to so instruct, which motion ii it
prevailed would be equivalent to passing
the bill over the veto, brought on the
circus, for certainly the telegraphic re-
port oil it makes it nothing else. Mr..
Joseph G. Cannon, OF Illinois, true to his
name, shot off dose OF maudlin political
trash such as would shame the conduct
ola crossroads candidate forp poundmaster,
and received the merited jeers and laugh
ter OF the Democrats in consequence.
Cannon made the following remarkable
speech, resulting in the circus alluded to :
There were great questions in this country
calling for the attention of the Executive,
yet the President brushed them all aside and
appeared anxious to cater to nobody except
that solid kind that came from the Solid
South. He wanted to get their applause, as
| they cast the solid votes in the nominating
| conventional. i'm 1
through gimlet hole, with magnifying
| glass, hunting for excuses and heaping de-
rision upon the heads of poor men who lost
their health in the service of their country.
That was statesmanship! Applause on
the Republican side, which was received
with answering applause and laughter from
the Democrats. oh, yes, continued
Mr.. Cannon, and tell you you will have
to defend it before November. [Renewed
applause on the Democratic side. The
gentlemen who are clapping their hands can
defend it. They have the kind of constitu-
encies who believe in it. Applause and
laughter on the Republican side.1 You will
have to defend il before November These
men who We're entitled to their pensions,
with their friends and with public opinion,
and with the sense of justice in this coun
| try, viii send Congress here which will
pass these bills and other proper legislation
over the Presidents veto. Applause on
the Republican side.
After relieving himself OF the foregoing
bile he subsidized, and Mr.. Matson, OF In
diana, who, ii there be any virtue in hay
ing served the country in the War OF the
Rebellion, certainly is entitled 10 it,,
having worked his way, always under
fire, from private soldier to Colonel,
and who cannot therefore be CHARGED
with want OF respect or feeling for sol
diers, arose and put quietus on the
whole show by reminding the Repub-
lican blowhards that all or nearly all the
pension legislation enacted had been
done by the Democrats, and completely
annihiated them by informing them that
the very pension bills over which they
were lighting had all been vetoed by a
Republican Commissioner oi Pensions
years ago. This last dose seemed to
bring the House 10 its senses, and the
motion to instruct the committee was lost
by vote OF l2G nays TO lis yeas. The
present attitude OF the Republicans in
Congress toward the Presidential yetoes,
proves how hard they are pushed for
! political capital for their next campaign,