The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-01
PENSION vEToEs.

Last week the President sent to the
Senate another fine assortment of pen
sion bill vetoss. Among them were
two We reproduce below il asmuch
they call attention to the kind of bills
which the Senate passes. It woulc
seem that neither the Senators who in
troduce the bills nor the COM mittees Il
whom the bills are referred nor the
legislators who vote for the bills evel
take the trouble to examine into the
merits of the claims. 1t is enough fo
Republican Senator that somebody
asks for money and bases his reques
or the allegation that hs was con.
nected with the Union army. The
President is not saving to the country
much money by these vetoes, but he i.
exposing the recklessness with which
the public funds are being vetoed away
by partisan Congressman. Here are
the two vetoss referred to:
l return without approval Senate bill
number twenty-three hundred and seventy
entitled AN Act granting a pension tC
Sarah c. Anderson and children under Ii
years of age"
William II. Anderson the husband and
father OF the beneficiaries named in this
bill. enlisted on the 9th day of August.
1856, and is reported as sick or absent @
large part of his short term service He
was discharged April %. 1863 on a urgeon S
certificate OF disability for ''tertisry syphilis
with liberated throat and extensive nodes
on the tibia of both legs -
He never filed an application for pension;
he was admitted to an Insane asylum in
September, 1888, suffering with epilepsy.
chronic diarrhe4, and demeniia, and died
of pneumonia OH the 10th day of February,
1854.
His symptoms and troubles after his dis.
charge, so far as they are stated, are en-
tirely consistent with the surgeons certit-
cate of disability given a! the time of his
discharge, and there SENS TO be an en-
tire lack of testimony connecting in any
reasonable way his death with any incident
of his military service.
GROVER CLEVELAND,
Executive Mansion. August %, 1858,
l return without approval Senate bill
No. 1852, entitled IAN act granting a pen
sion to James (. Kabler."
The beneficiary enlisted August 10, 1862.
He is reported as absent sick for November
and December, 1892 present for January
and February, 1868; on the rolls for March
and April he is reported as deserted. and
for May and June as under arrest. On the
18th OF September, 1868, after having been
in The service little over year, he was
mustered out with his company with the
remarks Absent without leave and return
ed to duty with loss of fifty two daya pay by
order of General Boyle" The charge of
desertion does not appear to have been
proved.
He filed a claim for pension, in 1870, on
account of quinsy alleged TO have been con-
tracted about December 7, 1862, with some
evidence to support the claim. Three meC-
ical examinations fail to establish the eX-
istence of this disease in a pensionable de-
gree. and it is reported 10 me from the Pen
sion Bureau that in March, 1882, the family
physician of the beneficiary stated that,
though he had practised in his family for
eight or nine years, he had no recollection
of treating him for quinsy or any other
disease
1t seems to me that neither the service
nor the alleged disability of this beneficiary
are of meritorious character.
GROVER CLEVELAND,
Executive Man sion. August %, 1883.