Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-17

These, he asserted, were COTTON up by pen
sion agents in Washington, and by them
circulated through the country for sigma
tures to be used as pressure upon the
Senate.
Mr. Ingalls, inquired for Mr.. Beck's su
thority for the statement he had just made.
Mr.. Beck replied by reading from the
report Of the Commissioner of Pensions in
1879, showing the existence and operations
of the Pensions Agent Bureau. He added
that the adoption of the resolution would
be equivalent to telling the House that it
might as well cease to consider all modiica-
tiOns of the law, as the Senate had com
mitted itself against them. Mr.. Beck re-
iterated that Congress was deceived by a
scheme concocted by interested outsiders,
and asked Mr.. Ingalls, If he did not believe
when he voted for it that the act would not
involve an aggregate expenditure of over
nineteen millions or at the utmost thirty
millions.
Mr.. ingalls, replied that such a statement
was imputed to him, but that he had never
made any such statement. What he did say
was that II those already upon the roll who
had been deprived of the pensions to which
they had been entitled were given the arrears
they had earned up to the time Of the pas
sage of the bill, It would amount to about
nineteen million dollars, and that If the
previously existing limitations were re-
moved, no definite statement of the total
cost could be made, as the number of future
applications could not be foreseen.
Mr.. Beck said he had never disputed the
principle of the bill that gives all our
soldiers who fought on the same field the
same pension.
Mr. Ingalls-That is all the arrearages
law does.
Mr.. Beck-But l would not allow law
to stand which affords means for COM
mittlng fraud.
Mr. Ingalls, would have voted for it If
had cost $50 600, 900. I will to-day vote to
allow any claim of a soldier that is estab-
lished to run to the time his disability was
incurred, whether it costs $500 or $l00,000,-
900. 2
Mr. Beck repeated his question.
Mr.. Ingalls, replied that he did not at the
time know what the arrearages would cost,
but that when a measure was just he would
endorse it regardless Of what it cost to do
Justice.
Mr.. Beck, having asked to be allowed
twenty minutes tomorrow morning to com
plete his remarks, the discussion closed for
the present, and Mr.. Sherman's funding bill
was taken up and laid over as unfinished
business for tomorrow.
Mr. Cameron, Of Pennsylvania, delivered
twenty minute speech upon taxation, de-
claring it ineXpedient to reduce the revenue
by abolishing all existing internal revenue
laws except upon high wines and distilled
spirits.
The Senate, at 1855, went into executive
session, and at 4:10 adjourned till to-mOr-
row.
THE AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT.
The bill introduced IN the House to-day
by Mr.. Money of Mississippi, to make the
Agricultural Department an executive de-
partment, and to enlarge its duties and
powers, provides for Secretary and Assist
ant Secretary. who shall be practical agri
culturists. That department shall embrace
a bureau of Education and Labor, whose
duty 1t shall be to collect all information
concerning education, wages of labor, price
of products, cost of living OF the working
classes here and abroad, ana all information
that may cOnduce to the welfare and
advancement of the industrial classes
of the country. That this bu-
reau shall especially collect
ali information concerning the rural work
of women, in order that it may enlarge the
sphere of labor and tighten the burdens of
families OF the agricultural population.
1t also provides for a bureau of geological
survey, bureau of transportation to cor
rect information concerning the cost OF
moving agricultural products, merchandise
and passengers, and also a bureau Of manu-
features. The important feature of the
bill, however, is that it establishes in each
State of the Union one or more expert
mental stations for the purpose of thorough
ly testing valuable plants, seeds, fertilizers
and agricultural implements with reference
to soil and climate.
SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.
The following Southern cases were deci-
ded in the Supreme Court of the United
S a'es to-day:
From Florida-Peter Jones ct al VS.. John
and Mary E Buckell; judgment affirmed.
From Alabama-Benj H. Myron ct al. VS..
the First National Bank of Montgomery;
decree reversed and cause remanded with
instructions to dismiss the bill. Hobart G.
Dugger ct al. VS.. Willis P. BOcock ct al
dismissed for want of jurisdiction.
From Tennessee-Wm. II. Evans ct al vs.
the Mayor and City Council of Nashville;
decree affirmed with costs. Mary Jane
Griggs ct al. VS.. R. G. Houston; judgment
affirmed with costs.
From LOuisiaua-VincentM Micas VS.. O. H.
Williams, collector; judgment affirmed with
costs. Thos. NJ. Gumer ct al. VS.. Henry H.
Jones ct al dismissed with costs.
AID FOR FREE SCHOOLS.
The bill intro uced in the House to-day
by Representative Wheeler, of Alabama, to
aid in the establishment and temporary
support of common schools, proposes
to appropriate $lO5, ,OOO, 900 for this pur.
pose during the next ten years-$15 600,
600 the first year, S14 100000 the second
year, and thereafter sum diminished oy
81 1000, 900 annually, the money so
appropriated to be expended to secure the
benefits of common school education to
all children living in the United States.
The bill is intended to aid for the time
being in the development and maintenance
Of school system established by the
local power In the States and Territories,
which must eventually be wholly main
tanned by the States and Territories.
MOVE FOR FREE SHIPS.
Representative FarWell of illinois, intro
duced bill in the House to day to enable
American capitalists to purchase in foreign
markets iron or steel steamships to be used