The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1892-09-28

ii4oi PAi'' Oll Ndy -, Iooo, hS az
cidently took too large a dose and his
death resulted. A one-legged soldier
maddened with pain andrequiring the
constant applies of opiates is not
money-maker. In fact, Mrs. Nell
vain had hard work to get along with
the pension allowed, and when her
husband died she naturally thought
the government in whose service he
had lost his leg and in consequence
passed the twenty remaining years in
wretchedness, which also made her
own existence miserable ought to al.
low her small pension. Congress
thought SO, too, and passed bill in
her favor. True to his record, Mr..
Cleveland vetoed the measure.
Private Jacoby incurred deafness
and chronic diarrhoea while in the SER
vice, and from the combined effects
of these disabilities his mind became
SO seriously inT2ired that in Septem-
Der, 1875, he Wandered away from
home, and was probably Killed in
some manner or died of hunger or ex-
posure. Mrs, Jacoby made long and
dilligent search for her missing hus-
band but in 1885 ten years having pas
sed since his disappearance she aband-
edall hope of seeing him again and ap-
piled for pension as his widow.
Congress listened to her appeal and
passed bill in her behalf. Mr..
Cleveland promptly vetoed it. ellis
disability from Army service should
be conceded" the President gracious
ly admitted in his message, "and his
deatl at some time in some manner
may be well presumed, but" and
here Mr.. Cleveland, in his anxiety to
find ~ excuse, evidently forgot that
he h4 conceded the disability which
led tok nsanity and its fatal consequent
ces,. he fact that he died from any
Gauss related to his disability or his
y Is ts aEEalg has NJ prssunpI
Ftion and nor a single particle Of proof
to rest upon" And on this wretched
bubble Mrs. Jacoby was deprived OF
the pittance which Congress had in.
tended to grant her.
Jacob Romiser was luckier than
most of the beneficiaries whose reliet
bills were vetoed by Mr.. Cleveland
inasmuch as Congress passed the bill
over the Presidents head. Romisel
was member of Captain Mason'S
company of volunteers of Frostburg,
Md. The company, in June 1861,
f was ordered to march to Cumberland
to repel an attack threatened by Con.
forces. Upon arriving there the mer
were ordered to uncap their musket
and in doing this Romiser was wound
ed through, the negligence of a com
rade whose musket was discharged
The status of the company was pecu
liar. 1t had been raised by Captain
Frost and co-operated with the Unlor
forces against the Confederates. a
claim was made by Romiser but re
jected by the pension bureau in be
half of the Union cause though draw
ing neither pay nor subsistence from
the National Treasury, was not in thu
services of the United States at tn,
I time the claimants injury was received
there was no question that the com
pany took the field against the confed
crates and it was also admitted tha
Romiser received the injury as claim
: ed. Congress brushed aside thi
technicality and passed the bill givin,
the wounded soldier a pension, bu
|, Mr.. Cleveland returned it with tn
habitual veto. A more singing re
6 buke than that administered to tn
3 President by Congress for this vet
could not be well imagined By
) vote of IT'S years against 3S nays 10
r Representatives not voting, the Dem
!. ocratic House passed the bill over tn
. veto, and the Senate, in which were
/. number of Democrats, passed tn
n measure unanimously.
+ Will rebuke him. These are bu
o a few of the pension bills vetoed b
Mr.. Cleveland, but they are suficier
/, to recall his hostality to Union We
is Grams and their families. All told h
E vetoed IoI measures of this characte
d and seldom he finished a messag
is without insulting the beneficiary, {