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Show ORDER NO. 78 Whlcli .liilgn I'ark-r "-VIII ot IU t liatice to Itevukp. Nothing ill tlie Del Ultle illlltcr of wheieasiM against Piesldcnt Itoosetelt has falhsl so llttetl) as that uiiingn liiK' his pension older. No 7S. making the proof of ceitaln aces by old ""1 dlers evidential fails ol certain de Krees or (llsiiblllty U the older had been cuiinlnslv de vised to betray the meat ((institutional lawyers or the Dcniocnicy into inal. ini! inoie than the usual Kinds or con tluental nsses or tlieinseltrs it could not hate siiieeeded inoie coinplctcl) nml llldlciousl.t When the jrient "1'iirker fonslltutlon club." or New Ymk. started In to arralsn Theodote Itoosetelt ror aolliB tlilouidi the Rtltutlon as ir It were a paper hoop In a elicits rliic. 11 attached his Issuance Issu-ance or older No. TS In these wolds: "We Ilnd that I'lesldeut Itoosetelt dellheiately ilNii'KiiidisI aitlcle I, set - thin II. or the istltutlon. provldlin,' 'No money shall be dlilWIl finiu the treasury, but In coneipietice of appio prlatlons in.ide by law.' " Now, what hip the Tarts? Older No. 7.S assumed that an old soldier who Is H'J ye.its or aye Is probably prob-ably able to rn 1 11 onl.t one hair of the suppnit the stntilte pint Ides In case of total disability, at ttlilih staiie he arrives ar-rives when he Is 70. and siiys ho shall be entitled to the inunlllcent sum or ?t! per mouth as a pension: and It llndi that at Ii." he Is ttto-thlids dls.ibled and entitled to !?S There can be no set Ions objection to the pilnclple or the order, which Is based on the experience of mankind as to tlie Kiadual decay of human potveis V.y leasou or Htieuulli many men are, ns able to "earn a suppoit" at 70 as at HO. but the vast maorlty at CO have passed the .line wheie they nie rully capable of dolui: so In "tlie perforin-ance perforin-ance of manual labor" and the evil days appio.uh when "the Krnsshopper shall be a bunion and deslie shall fall." Order No 7S merely rn onles the course of natuie. but it draws 110 money mon-ey out of (be treasury without niithoil ty of law. It was issued March r. 100 1, to be elTectlvo April III, l'JO-1 Coiikk'ss bi'lui: In session It was repotted re-potted to that body with the request that .'Fl.r.OO.oon be nppropilated to carry car-ry It Into effect. 'Ihe sum was embodied em-bodied In tlie pending delleleney bill, lifter flee discussion the money was voted, and In due older under the act of collisions, the pensions begun to issue, is-sue, and not till then. Kverj cent paid under older No 78 xtas diawn from the treiisuiy in ioneiiience of "an iippioprliitioii made liy law " i:it the Parker Constitution club, or New York, with Its 101istltutlon.il ears at hair mast. Now. mark the se.iuel: un M'pi. 1:1 last. M.HO.O00 was coveted back Into the tiensiiry as the tiuepcniled balance bal-ance or Ihe apptopriallon or $l,roo.pon. arter payinc S!h).H)0 on 18,l'.'J7 claims 1 ndjudlcatisl In Ajnll. May and .lune to the end of the tlscal year. Of the eertlllcnles Issued only 'J.r.O were ror orlKlual pensions to veterans who had reached the ime or li'J or upward, and 14,7(W weiw Increases allowed to claim-nuts claim-nuts who were reveiviiij, pensions ror disability less than the ninount to. which Ihe.v vteie entitled under the pension for ace ' Thus, It will be perceived, the dread or a heavy pension mid on the treasury treas-ury by leimon or order No. 78 ha cone KlIininerlUK 11I011K with the constitutional con-stitutional hysterics or the Parker Constitution flub, or New York. |