The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-13
ORDER NO. Is
Which Judge Parker Will Not Have
Chance to Revoke.

Nothing in the Democratic culver of
whereases against President Roosevelt
has failed so utterly as that arraigning
his pension order, No 7S, making the
proof of certain ages by old soldiers
evidentia facts of certain degrees of dis
ability
If the order had been cunningly de-
vised to betray the great constitutional
lawyers of the Democracy into making
more than the usual kinds of continental
asses of themselves it could not have
succeeded more completely and ludicrous-
ly. When the great Parker Constitu-
ton Club" of New York. started in to
arraign Theodore Roosevelt for going
through the constitution as if it were
a paper hoop in a circus ring, it attack
ed his issuance of order No 1S in these
words:
I'VE find that President Roosevelt de-
liberatey disregarded Article !, Section .,
of the Constitution, providing NO money
shall be drawn from the Treasury, but In
consequence of appropriations made by
law
Now, what are the facts!
Order No. IS assumes that an old
soldier who is 62 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 seventy, and says he
shall be entitled to the munificent sum
of Sc per month as pension; and 1t
finds that at IS he is two-thirds disa bled
and entitled to IS.
| There can be 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 a support" at seventy
as at thirty, but the vast majority at
sixty have passed the line where they
are fully capable of doing so in 1.-THE
performance Of manual labor" and the
evil DAYS approach when ''the grasshop-
! ner shall be burden and desire shall
fail"
| Order No. Is merely recognizes the
course Of nature, but it draws no money
ont of the treasury without authority
of law. 1t was issued March 10, 1904
70 he effective April 13, 1904. Congress
being in session it was reported to that
body with the request that $1,5OO.UN
he appropriated to carry it into effect
The sum was embodied in the pending
deficiency BILL after free discussion the
money was voted, and in due order undel
the Act of Congress, the pensions begar
TO issue. and not till then. Every cen'
maid under Order No. IS was drawn
from the treasury in consequence of "ar
appropriation made by law"
Exit the Parker Constitution Club, o
New York. with its constitutional ear'
at half mast.
Now. mark the sequel: On Septembe
10 last, $1,41O,OOO was covered bacl
into the treasury as the unexpendet
balance of the appropriation of $1,oOO'
600 after paying $4,000 on 1862
claims adjudicated in April. May ant
lime to the end of the fiscal year o
the certificates issued only 1859 wer
for original pensions to veterans VIII
had reached the age of siXty-two
inward, and 14,76S were increases a
lowed to claimants who were receivin
pensions For disability less than tn
amount to which they were entitle
under the pension for age.
Thus. it will be perceived, the drea
of a heavy pension raid on the treasur
by reason of Order No. IS has gon
glimmering along with the constitutions
nv sterics Of the Parker Constitutio
Club of New York.