Democratic (constitutionalist) President Cleveland vetoes the Dependent Pension Act, which would have provided pensions to the parents of honorable discharged compulsory Union veterans of the War of Federal Aggression, as the program would be rife with “dishonesty and mendacity.”
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Authority:
Article I, Section 7 [Clause 2]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 228.
Grover Cleveland: Veto Message
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=71488
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