The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1904-10-15
ORDER NO. 7s
Which Judge Parker Will Not Have .
Chance 70 Revoke.

Chance 70 Revoke.
Nothing in the Democratic CULVER of
whereaSes against President Roosevelt
has failed so utterly as that arraign.
ing his pension order. No. IS. making
the proof Of certain ages by old sol
dierS cvidential facts Of certain de-
grecs of disability.
If the order had been cunningly de-
vised to Detray the great constitutional
lawyers of the Democracy into max
ing more than the usual kinds of on
t%incntal asses of themselves it could
not have succeeded more completely
and ludicrously. When the great
Parker Constitution club Of New
York, started in to arraign Theodore
Roosevelt for going through the con-
stitution as if it We're a paper hoop
in Il circus ring. it attacked his iSsu-
ancc Of order No. 70 in these words:
I'VE find that President Roosevelt
deliberately disregardel article !, Sec
ton 8. of the constitution, providing
80 money shall be drawn from the
treasury, but in consequence of appro-
priations made by law"
Now. what are the facts?
Oricr No. 7S assumed that an old
soldier who is GU years of age is prob
ably able to earn only one-half of the
support The statute provides in case of
total disability. at which stage he ar
rives when he is 20, and says he shall
be entitled to the munificent sum Of
SC per month as a pension; and it finds
that ut Go he is two-thirds disabled
and entitled to So.
There can he no serious objection
to the principle of the order. which is
based on the experience of mankind as
to the gradual decay of human powers.
BY reason of strength many men are
as able to learn q support ut 70 as
at 80. but the vast majority at GO have
passed the line where they are fully
capable of doing so in "the perform
ancc of manual labor" and the evil
days approach when the 'graSShOprer
shall be Il burden and desire shall
fail"
Order No. rs merely recognizes the
course of nature. but it draws no mon
ey ont of the treasury without authori-
ty of law. 1t was issued March ..
1904. to be effective April Is, 1902.
Congress being in session it WAS re-
ported to that body with the request
that $1,IGo.G0O be appropriated TO car
ry it into effect. The sun WAS el,.
bodied III the pending deficicnr:; bill,
81 y. r... l:,,.,, t1p ,x,,,n ,,-sc
voted, anl in due order under the act
of congress-. the pensions began to IS
sue, and not till then. Every cost
paid under order No. IS was drawn
from the treasury in consequence OF
IAN appropriation made by law"
Exit the Parker Constitution club, OF
New York, with its constitutional ears
at half mast.
Now. mark the sequel: On Sept. 10
last. &1.41O.OOO was covered back into
the treasury as the uneXpendcd bal
anrc of the appropriation Of S1,50O.cOo.
after paying 100000 on 1862 claims
adjudicatcd in April, May and June to
the end of the fiscal year. OF the
certificates issued only 1850 We're for
original pensions to veterans who a
reached the & of GO or upward, and
IA. 7GS were increases allowed to claim.
ants who were receiving pensions for
disability less than the amount to
which they we're entitled under the
pension for age.
Thus, it will be perceived. the dread
of a heavy pension raid on the treas
ury by reason of order No, IS has
gone glimmering along with the ron
stitutional Mysteries of the Parker
Constitution club. of New York.