Show i PAYMASTER IJASUS CASE The President is being criticised by certain newspaper which have never been able to give him credit for the good he does because he vetoed the bill for the relief of Paymaster Bash who was robbed of 735093 while en route to pay off some troop n Wyoming The President based his veto on the fact that the paymaster had not taken proper caution against the 1 robbery The President reviews thp circunutancej of the theft and then says Upon arrlviagatAntelopo Springs he was 4 S9 informed by the sergeant that he did not I propose to tate dinner there The paymaster I pay-master almost casually said to him llien vou stay at the stage mid be himself went and indicated his sur i to tho dining room prise at seeing the sergeant there by looking at aim sharply However as he was just eating his pie nothing was said It is improbable tbit the thief waited for the clerk and escort and lastly the pay I maFCer himself to enter the dining room 4 bJore venturing to take entirely unmolested unmo-lested the valise containing the money When it is considered that after finishing his pie the sergeant t ame out to the stage so J nearlv tho exact moment of the theft tint though baity mounted 11 < 3 was abe to nr 1 proach near enough pursuit of the fleeing f t t thief to exchange revolver shots with him 11 is quite apparent that the loss might 1 have been prevented if The paymaster had remained a abort time by the stage when he saw it unprotected or had taken the I valifce in with him or promptly diverted the attention of the sergeant from his pie to the money which all had abandoned I cannot satisfy myself that the negligence made apparent in this case should be over lokod It was clearly a case of reckless negligence and one which should be punished at least as severely as the President proposes to punish it Had even ordinary caution been taken no one would have objected to the relief which Major Bash asks The Congress which passed the bill should be censured for the reckless voting away of the peoples money aui not the President for a Iministering deserved punishmeat to a careless officer |