Show CLEVELAND AND PENSIONS four years vear sigo ago republicans raised ri 1 hue and cry about Clev elands pension votes voles it was then naturally to be expected that the llie republican C 1 it party on oil coming coining t into power at it a critical time would take up those vetoed bills and piss them again nut but they failed to do it why they were left in tile hie basket where president cleveland lind had placed them because tile they were not lot meritorious claims that was grover G rover Clev elands reason for rejecting them now what is benan benjamin reason for nut not le ic ting them in all that list of names applications mr cleveland refused not one of them now appears on oil the pension litt although mr harrison arrison II lias has lind ad ample time to investigate their cases casc s tit the great love bior ili mistreated is treated veterans veteran shown aurim during 0 the alie campaign did not miteria lizO during the four years of republican rulo rule which followed can ail any republican tell the reason and why have not these bills been taken up and passed simply ply because every sensible man knew that they ought not to have been passed in the first place their patsa passage e was an in insult alt to ever every y old soldier they were of a 1 character that was changing 0 the pension roll to a roll of dishonor they the pensioned bounty junipers deserters and were hurried through congress congre without any proper examination of their merits on ono one occasion the passed private pension bills in one hour and teu ten minutes in tome some cases they the pensioned men who were dead in others they actually reduced tile pensions of tile the supposed beneficiaries from beginning to end the president appears to have been the only person who 0 gave the bills any honest consideration and that hat it was honest consideration is proven by the pension bills lie he approved durin during 0 his administration president cleveland not only signed 0 more pension bills than all the republican presidents who preceded him hill but also many more than president harrison arrison II has signed on july clerk of the house committee on invalid pensions reported tile the number of pension benmon bills approved under the several administrations 1111 rations from 1860 to date as I 1 follows PENSION DILLS BILLS APPROVED by lincoln 44 by grant 2 terms 50 M by hayes 1 by y garfield and arthur by cleveland 1825 by harrison arrison II this is the lie record on oil which tile the standard and other journalistic co assail Clev elands administration tra tion it shows more pension bills approved than were approved by all live five or of the republican presidents who preceded liim him in the twenty four years of their administration more bills approved than were approved by benjamin harrison arrison ll who followed him this certainly does not show auy any hostility tu to the veterans of the c ivil civil war it shows that the president in pension matters as in ill all other business endeavored to act in accordance dance with his official oath in performing the duties of his office tu to be just at once to the gohei nt and those who made claims upon it odthe of claims vetoed nearly one hundred had been examined examine and rejected by the pension penion bureau under tinder republican adin administrations inist rations and more tha than n fifty in which applications were pending 3 at the time were after ward wan I 1 rejected s they were railroaded through congress without examination and the number of pension bills sub submitted mittel to president cleveland for approval 0 2349 49 indicates that there here was an object in this whole wholesale salo unloading of discredited claims b by Y congress anti and throwing 0 on tile the president the responsibility y of pissing passing on oil their in merits crits which should have fallen un on congress s mr air cleveland did not lahiri that re iii hi novel never shirked any responsibility ability and liis his action gave no just cause of complaint to anyone as is ie now proven by the aati action n of the republican hypocrites who pretended pretend rd at the time to condemn it |