Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1827-01-18

The question being taken, the bill was ordered
to be engrossed for third reading by large ma
joriy
On motion OF Mr.. Van Buren,, the Senate went
into Executive business. After which,
The Senate adjourned to Monday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
ARMY APPROPRIATIONS.
Mr.. McLane Of Del. from The Committee OF
Ways and Means, reported bill making appro
piiations for the Military service, for the year
1927; which was twice read. and committed to
| the Committee of the Whole on the state of the
Union.
The following resolution, laid on the table by
Mr.. Mercer, on the 10Th instant, was called up,
read, and agreed TO by the House,
G. Resolued, That the Secretary of the Treasury
be directed to lay before this House statemen,
OF the annual receipts from the Gust oms, from the
fiscal year ending the S0th September 1915,
| to the Goth September lat, voting the amount
ceived under each separate head OF revenue from
this source. specific ad valorem, and The an
uua! smount of drawbacks for the came period,
and under the same hesds''
| kEVOLUTIONAR AIRY PENSIONERS.
| Mr. Worthington submitted for consideration the
following resolution:
Resoired, That the Committee on Military Pea
sons be Instructed 10 inquire into the expectancy
OF allowing 10 the non commissioned officers,
musicians, and privates, who are now on the pen
'on roll, IN consequence of wounds received in
the Revolutionary war, not amounting to o,al
disability, the same amount OF pension is al
lowed TO persons OF the aforesaid ranks laboring
under disabit, of the highest degree.
Mr. Wor,hing,on said, that, with the permission
OF the House. he would lr:efiy state the re o
which had induced him 10 submit the re : ton
ulcr consideration. II will be seen by its phrase
oiogy said he, that it is confned exclusively TO
,he non-commssioned officers, musicians and pri
| val ax,,hn I,i.l
we're and arduous confiict of the Revolution, and
to such OF them only now on the pension
roll. The pens ons allowed to the commissioned
efhcers may be sufficient Tor their decent support
but this ~ no, the with the description OF per-
sons embraced by the resolution. By the act of
1916, non commissioned officers, musicians, and
privaes, laboring under the highest degree OF dis
'biiify, are allowed eight dollars month, and for
disabilities of less degree ihan he highest, sum
propor'ionsbly less Under this provision, whilst
rome receive eight dollar, month, others receive
less. according TO the degree of disability. Now
the object Of the resolution is put them all or
an equality, by allowing them eight dollarsof
month. AT the time of the passage of .,.s
lSl6, this scale OF allowance might have been
proper, but, after he lapse Of ten years, when old
age and wounds combined, amount a totairdisa-
billy, the reasons for graduating their pensions
no longer exist. Under the act oil 1916, the
War Department does no; consider old age DIS
AGILITY; and although a soldier may be unable 10
procure subsistence by manual labor in consequence
OF wounds and old age combined, yet he is allow ed
only according to the degree of disability under
which he originally labored in consequence of
wounds alone. But, sir. independent OF these cal
clla,ions. am impelled by other considerations
to mete TO these war-worn soldiers, these 80 rem :
nants OF an age gone by" The mos, liberal allow
ance. Ii any class OF citizens deserves the NUM-
hcence OF the Government more than another, il is
the one we are now considering. II was not for
mercenary views. or in pursuit Of criminal ambi-
ton, they arrayed themselves under the military.
standard No, sir; i; under the sacred ban
ner OF liberty and independence that they bar
Ell their bosoms to the fury Of the storm. No,
sir;it was In the noble Of liberty against
slavery, OF freemen against tyrants that these mel
OF the old Roman stamp so profusely poured GU I,
their blood, and feariessly encountered sufierings
and dangers almost incredible TO the generation of
the present day. These men, who entered the
1" imminent deadly BREACH who endured misery
In all its shapes, are now languisbing in penury
and their subsistence is made 10 depend upon an
ari;hmetica calculation as to the degree Of disab
~ under which they originally labored. / am a.
much opposed, said Mr.. w. TO the extension of
the pension system, as any member oil this House,
but the resolution contempates increase only Of
pension TO the living and MANNED monuments of
their country's emancipation; to men 10 whom you
and |, Mr.. Speaker, and all of us, are so deeply
indebted for civil, religious, and political Ii
berry lin word, for all happiness for, with
out these blessings, the world is great waste,
| where naught but fends and tempests howI.' Sir,
1t is to these men, lsborng under wounds, scarcely
yet cicatrized. and bending 10 the earth under a
| superintendent weight of infTmi;y and years, that
would open the national purse, aid gladden. there
| by their last days, by tni. new evidence C. our
| gratitude.
My resolution is emphatically in favor OF the
common soldier, and TO him wish the attention Of
| ho 'nmitee 10 be directed. ! hope, with this
view, the resolution will be adopted.
| Mr.. Mccoy hoped that, before the House took
| any step to increase either the number or the r.
mount of pensions, that they would have the
| whole case before them Much of the gradual; ed
pension to which the resolution referred, was
| drawn by persons in wealthy circumstances, who
| do not need this addition 10 their income-and as
for those poorer, the House may be sure that they
would relnquisb the graduated pension, and acc ept
the So per month, if they could show that they
come within the provision of the law which grant
ed it. TINS entire subject, Mr.. Nice. said, had
been thoroughly examined in 1920, when the law
| amendatory of the first pension law was passed
| and was then well understood.
| Mr.. Warrington replied, that he had offered the
resolution, because those who received the
! graduated pension, had represented il as proper ,
and had applied to have the law thus altered.
| Mr.. Little observed, that the resolution did not
conhne itself 10 those alone who were included
within the act of 1918, but extended to many 9TH
ers. 1t Included those who had not been on the
Continental establishment, as well 60 those who
had. He thought distinction between these clss-
ses ought not to be made, and he should vote for
the resolution.
! IL was then agreed. to by the House.
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