Show I PRESIDENT CLEVELAND was just as I I quick to step forward and prevent a wrong to a pensioner as to prevent what I I he considered a wrong to the Govern I ment Two of his vetoes were upon the ground that an applicant for a pension who secures it by special act of Congress thereby loses his arrears The President on this account returned a bill in favor of Rachel Ann Pierpont A pension had been granted her under the general laws dating back to December 1879 For the same reason the bill in favor of Jacob Smith was vetoed Under this certificate his pension will date back to sometime in 1882 while under the bill it would only have begun with its passage |