New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-01-26
TIE NEW PENSION BILL.
The Albany Journal gives the following syaop-
,is of the gigantic Pension bill COW before Con-

res.:
rerding in tts House II regard To >cii'ers u tbs
War OF 1912, and TIE Inosa War previcas thereto.
srsLis; $500 -,,,.--
naval serv ioe either regular volunteer ranger o-
niis-msp, The same pay PEI month, eslng ne Ts'i
Of his life INST be was entitled % receive while 70 ;hs
service. his pay to coEnescs from next ga OF
March.
40 each viGor Of such person tie sane.
40 ofhers but the colder or bic do~ % receive This
psy except in case Of their death between me times
of sen,.aIngsl psyqeut when the amount scc,ue1
from the time Of the ast ment up 70 the tine ot
the Death shsll be paid 10 tie children or esa repre-
:. natives"
1T strikes US that this is altogether the mos.
strocious Of the many schemes devised in our
dsy ha7irr for their general object the punder of
the many for the prof. of the feS. Just consider
these iscts:
!. All these "Old Soldiers unlike thOse Of
the Revoution) were regularly paid for their SER
vices, in money nearly or quite equal TO god sni
silver.
2. Many il not most Of them have received one
quarter section Of Public Land already as
bounty for said service.
3. Very many of them served az substitutes for
militia. men regularly drafted into service. and
were paid bounty By thoss whose places they
took, in addition TO their regular pay aud extras
from Uncle Sam.
4. The War Of 1912 only lasted two yesrs and
q half (sesins. the seven years endurance OF the
War Of the Revolution, and not half the men
who viii claim pensions under this bill serse1
even Elk months-msDy only three-Hhle some
were only drafted out to garrison exposed points
on the frontier during temporary apprehension
Of danger and can hardly be said to hsve served
at all.
3. About half the soldering done in the War
Of 1912 was emineDtly uDseryiceabie sud diacred-
liable to the country Not to mention toe in-
glorious surrender at Detroit (of which poor old
Hull vas made the scspe goat the largest army
we mustered in that War was that which invaded
Canada under WiDdef Chandler & Co, in 1913,
and was repulsed by few Canadian militia and
tolerable brush fence at the affair of Chateau
quay In due ii pe folowedthe Bladensbsrgh
Races " in which several thousands of Mary
land and Virginia Militia threw away their arms
and ran like sheep from less than half their n1m-
Der Of British soldiers and marines. Some Of
them are said TO have stopped the second day.
rome " hen they had put the Alleghenles behind
item, end tie rect are, probably, running yes.
We fear the passage of this audacious Pension
bill would stop them, snd turn their snou,s to-
ward Washington sgaiD. Do let them run
The Pension system, in our view, is at
deadly wsr with the genius and spirit of Repub-
lican institutions. 1t has already been stretched
in this country to the EXTREMIST verge Of pablo
forbearmce; bu. the suferiSgs AID foTtitude ofour
half clad half fed Revolutionary defenders, and
the fact that they were maioly aid in money hard
~ worth four shillings thu (besped) half buthel,
excuses the largesses since heaped on them
does any man know kow many times, and at
what cost, our regiment of NevYor Volun-
teers in addition TO its regular pay, rstions aud
land bounty has been called up to the public
trough and foddered y But the Pension act now
proposed exceeds all precedent ia inexcusable
enOrmity, and We cannot believe that even the
present CoDgrers viii P,rs i.. Should II do 80,
some good patriot ought to take the Public
Treasury ard empty it into the Potomac 80 that
some portion of its contents msy be fsbed up by
posteriiy aud applied TO some laudable purpose,
Our whole Military System is as vicious IS it
well can be. TDe sgissOGssic manner in which
our Army aud Navy are Offered would not be en-
durtd even in despctic France. Let the compis-
sions be inhexibly filed from the ranks, aud we
should always have an abundance Of brave ener-
getic, intelligent American soldiers, instead Of
mainly Irish and Germans. Pay the men the fair
value of their services and the yillaily now prac-
ticed 10 Recruiting would be needless. Pension
those disabled in battle, and let all other dis
charged soldiers earn their own living, like the
rest of U.s. Such are the outlines OF Republican
Military System. When shall we see them filed
cut and the fystem itself reduced to practice