...pension laws. The statutes were interpreted in a most liberal spirit. Before election, Harrison said that it "was no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales." * "Corporal" Tanner who was appointed commissioner of pensions, threw himself into the work of granting...

...History of the Presidency, i, 469. 4 Ibid., i, 477. by a soldier who said in one of his campaign speeches that it was "no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales,"1 was in contrast with the Democratic ticket headed by a President who had vetoed the Dependent...

...encouraged a spirit of broad liberality toward veterans of the Civil War. During the campaign he said that it "was no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales," and he put this principle of generous recognition into effect by appointing as commissioner of pensions...

...encouraged a spirit of broad liberality toward veterans of the Civil War. During the campaign he said that it "was no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales," and he put this principle of generous recognition into effect by appointing as commissioner of pensions...

...Tanner as Commissioner of Pensions. Harrison had said in one of his speeches before his nomination that it "was no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales. " l And this sentiment was translated by Tanner into action. He early announced his policy. Referring...

...he said; "cheap merchandise means cheap men and cheap men mean a cheap country." Harrison remarked that it was "no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales." This philosophy was now to have its trial, but first the obstructive power of the minority must be...

...contrast to Cleveland 's record. Harrison was a Union veteran and had said in one of his campaign speeches that it was "no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales." He was known to favor liberal pensions. 12 When the Republicans came into power in 1889, they at once...

...contrast to Cleveland's record. Harrison was a Union veteran and had said in one of his campaign speeches that it was "no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales." He was known to favor liberal pensions.12 When the Republicans came into power in 1889, they at once...

...Pres. Benjamin Harrison, Civil War veteran and member of the GAR, argued that the decade of the 1880s was "no time to be weighing the claims of old soldiers with apothecary's scales," and within two years Congress enacted the Dependent Pension Act of 1890. 80 Substantially different...

...relative (hereto be sure and state the , as above. Very respectfully, me in full. (2I(W— 50 M.) '8-180 Commissioner. This receipt of claim signed by Green...had been sacked after six months, then Green Berry Raum, a corrupt Republican ex-congressman from southern Illinois who held office at the time Newby's...