Show PENSION ORDER NO 78 par 0 loat roosevelt a action 1 I 1 I line with law and precedent I 1 the groundless character of 0 the charge that president roosevelt has exceeded I 1 his constitutional powers is lbrown clear ly y by examination of the facts and the laws concerned in the executive action known as the age pension order issued last march by direction of the president anyone who will take the trouble to t read the act of jane june 27 1890 as amend ed may 9 1000 1900 will find a clear ban to begin with it directs who shall bin have pens pensions ons and how the amount of th ill pension in each case snail be b desermia det ermia ed as an follows I 1 all persons who erred served 00 day days or aw war in the military or I 1 oval va service of the I 1 if tied states durl IR ig the late war or of the th i rebellion and who have b bw honorably alt charged and aho tire r now or I 1 who may hereafter be it 0 biferi s g from a mci met tal tat or physical disability 0 of a A I 1 BC e t character char eter not the result of their the w we 0 I 1 1 t to a habif habits which in apa spa gheem from the performance of not un al at labor la in t such a degree as to render ill in unable to t earn a support sh 11 mak ng mg due s A proof of the fact a ac ardi s g t such role rules 11 and regulations as tb of the tb interior mar may provide be pla pin e ed d upon the ta a list ilat or 0 invalid I 1 ie a lo 10 era of the lulled states is t to and be entitled to a peo pes W sion not exceeding 12 per month mouth and DM not W less than ko 0 per mouth month proportioned to andi the d gree of inability to earn a out cui cusport port d it in deter determine minh g such lual fuel ilita to h and aadi ev t i cry disability shall be duly const con 1 ml red ii I 1 7 the aggregate of the disabilities shown shalli Z be rated I 1 ec thus as plain as nords can cant make malls IL it j ta is authority eiten given to the secretary of if 0 tin the interior to determine what pension shab bc be te paid 0 o any applicant tor for pension wi who do served ninety dai it in the A ar of bebi bellion was honorably d s q barged ud and J n ho bo Is disabled for the performance of j manual labor by any caus oilier other that W the results of his own T vi lous long hib bib ts is da the supreme court has decided that I 1 arl upon the point of estabi bing the rat rate of del pension to be paid within the I 1 mita mits bed by the law the secretary of tin the to interior has entire control the onty go check or supervision upon him is froot I 1 ait the Pi president resident of the un led ted states whoa who a I 1 the general laws specifically direct thab gin have h ave control co atrol of the commissioner Commiss joner of reas re xia ons and the administration of th the pea pen dil tuon sion system 0 tat therefore it was directly la in line mae w 1111 fit the duties imposed upon him accor accordi diat Df to section U S revised statute lt that president roosevelt Roos eTeh kate give the cele cels the berated order which has been called to iho evidence of usurpation T a desire to override the constitution a looting of the treasury trea ury and nd other will bard names by excitable democrats the clini section of the revised Ile statutes referred all I 1 to reads as s follows I 1 in t the rho Oom commissioner mIssioner of pensions thu still perform pe under the direction of the eta x hold rotary of the tb interior such duties la in th aj execution of the various pension will fa iral bounty land laws es as nay may be 40 banc by the president president roosevelt la in hla his pension at th der did no more than bis his plain duty set imp ing strictly within the powers conf orrel I 1 1 ado I 1 upon him by the congress Con gres of the inal states |