Show MOKE VETO HE MESSAGES the president Ite returns turns to the senate seven private pension bills june 23 the president has today to day sent to congress seven vetoes all the vetoed measures being beine private pension bills which originated in the senate vm win H I 1 1 beck claimed a pension by reason of chronic epilepsy caused by jar to the head from heavy firing six months after this alleged jar and his consequent epilepsy he be enlisted reenlisted re upon a medical certificate of perfect soundness nud and served more than two years thereafter the president thinks this fact negatives the claimants dc des clara cl tiou and he vetoes the bill accordingly cordingly james butler while absent from his regimental rendezvous before his company had bad completed ita its mf orv animation aniza tion or had bad been mustered into ig nto the service of the government fell into a cellar and broke his leg the president can eee see fio pretext for allowing a pension in in this case cue mary J Not tinges bill is digap proved on the ground that her husbands death was not the als suit sult of his service robt Hols cys evs bill i is s vetoed the D g of the opinion that a correct conclusion con causion was reached when the application for pension in this case was denied by the pension bureau alfred dennye bill ie is vetoed be cause the President is satisfied th that at there is not a particle of merit in this claim and no facts are presented to me ine which entitle it to cli charita arita ble consideration dennys bennys record showed no disability but twenty years after ho he was di discharged sc barged I 1 he ae filed a claim alleging that he lie was injured by being thrown forward upon the horn of his saddle the president says the number of instances in which those of our soldiers sol diera who rode horses during the war were injured by being thrown forward upon their saddles indicates that those saddles were very dangerous dan geroue contrivances the bill granting a pens pension ionO to marilla parsons is disapproved for these reasons there are no special circumstance sr to distinguish distin this t is case from many others whose claims might be made by step parents and there are no facts stated in support of the bion embodied in the committees report that the soldier was taken sick from exposure incident to the service to depart from all rules regu regulating latin the granting of pensions by uch such an enactment as is proposed would ush a precedent precede rit which yb ich could not fail fall to cause canse embarrassment and perplexity with regard to the case cage of harriet welch the president says though this widow admits that prior to lier her marriage with the deceased soldier she had married another man inan whom she could only say elie she believed to be dead I 1 believe hercane to be a pitiable one and wish that I 1 could join in her relief but unfortunately ofil cial duty cannot always be well done when directed solely by sympathy and charity after the ines messages sages had been read in tho the senate Sena teMi mr logan remarked as to one of them thein that he be had bad never before known such a construction as that a soldier on furlough was not in the line of dut duty Y mr blair said the president seemed to find it a congenial duty to express himself in the roost ex tr ordinary tra ord inary terms respecting the two houses of congress he said that some of the presidents statements were entire misapprehend of the facts and some were petty add contemptible |