Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1820-04-06

reason fol distinction between the offlcers
and soldiers Of the Reyoluti o airy war now
reduced to poverty and asputting them Q"
the same footing would save to The country
annually considerable sum Of money, ne
moved 10 add the following as a new section
s TO the bill
| s That no officer who now is, or may
/ hereafter be placed on the pension list. shall
I after the paymentof that part Of his pension
1 which became due on the 4th day Of March,
( 1890. be entitled to receive more than fen
dollars per month, the same as received by
all other persons on the pension list"
/ The Yeas and Nays being required by
Mr.. Cannon on agreeing TO this motion, were
4 as follows.
For the motion 62
Against SO
So the motion was negatived.
Other amendments OF verbal nature
were proposed and passed upon.
hdr. Cannon, under the impression that the
service of the Militia had been of as much
Importance, and their sacrifices as great at
least as those of the continental soldiers, mo-
/ we'd to amend the bill by adding new sec
ton, the object of which was to embrace in
the provisions Of the pension law the officers
and soldiers OF the Militia who actually serv-s
ed for $3.50 months during the Revolutona-
ry war.
] Mr.'Hardin suggested that the proposition
of the gentleman from Tennessee was in
complete. He ought to have connected
with tproyisions for direct tax or internal
duties, which would be the necessary con-
sequence of measure that would add full
five millions 10 the present amount OF eApen
ditures under the pension act.
Mr.. Cannon said, he would tell the gentle
man, if Congress went on with their present
enormous expenditures, he should be ready.
without this provision, for a direct tax. He
placed his motion, he said, on the grounds Of
equality and justice, which appeared to him
TO sustain it,
Mr.. Bloomfield said few words agains.
the motion when
The question was taken thereon, and deci-
dedin the negative, FIVE or six members RI
sing in support of it.
Mr.. Campbell moved an amendment, that
no application for pension should be receis-
ed after the first day OF June, 1920
This motion was supported by the mover,
and opposed by Messrs. M'Lean, Liyermore,
Foot, Culpepper, Bloomfield and A. Smith
and was decided in the negative without
division,
Dir. Strother then moved to strike out the
whole of lie bill, excepting the enacting
clause, and to insert in lieu OF it a provision
for the total repeal of the revolutionary pen
sion law.
AIr. S. said he voted for the law, without
foreseeing the extent Gifts operation. Be-
ing convinced, now, thar It's benefits were
not equal to its expensiveness, he made the
best reparation he could to the country, by
moving its repeal
SIR Cannon assigned the reason why,
contrary to his disposition heretofore expires
sed, BE should vote for the repeal of the
law. He had endeayored to obtain amend
ments to the law, to place the officers and
soldiers on the same footing, and TO place
the militia man, OF equal, or greater merit,
on the same footing as the continental SOL
der. In these objects he had failed, anu he
felt himse' now bound to vote for the repeal
of law unjust and inequitable in its opera
ton.
Without further debate, the question was
taken on the motion of Mr.. Strother, to re-
peal the law, and decided as follows
For the motion. SO
Against the motion, leg
So the motion was rejected
Mr.. Morton moved an amendment, the OBJ
ject Of which was to strike out the whole
bill, and insert provision. limiting the con-
lnuance Of the pension of nine months men
to three years; and of three years men TO
nine years, from the time they are placed on
he pensionlis!. This motion was negatived,
! Sc to 46.
MIR. Strother then moved an amendment,
the object ofwhich was, to diminish the rate
ofthe pension SO per cent (or one half,
from and after the 9Th day Of September
next. This motion was also negativad, but