The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-01-17
LATEST TELEGRAMS,
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
REGULAR SESSION.
SENATE,

Washington. 16.-Vest presented
a petition tor the establishment OF
competitive examinations for MI
subordinate offices under govern.
ment.
Logan introduced a bill to nav
Mrs. Lincoln arrears Of pension for
five years from the death of her hus-
band and the passage of the ACT
granting her pension. He esti.
mated the amount at $4,000, and
asked immediate consideration.
Blair said the pension committee
was perfecting more comprehen.
slve bill, which would include this
case and that Of Mrs. Garfield. On
his suggestion the bill was referred
to that committee.
Beck asked whether a single senar
tor who voted for it, believed the
law would cost one-tenth what ii
had cost.
Ingalls, would have voted for it
if it had cost $500,OOO,oOO. | will To-
day vote to allow any claim of q
soldier that is established. to run
back to the time his disability was
incurred, whether it costs $780, O0.-
600 or billion dollars. The dis
cussiOn closed for the present.
The bill introduced by CockrelI. to
amend the homestead and pre-emp-
ton laws, by requiring claimants
for agricultural ntriesLbefore final
proof is issued, to submit and file
with a register of the land office
notices of intention to make proof,
and directing such notices to be
posted in the registers Office thirty
days.
Cameron, of Pennsylvania, deliv-
cred twenty minutes speech upon
the general subject of taxation, in
ternal and external. He opposed
material changes in the tariff. As
to the pension arrears act, he be-
lieved it ought never to be repealed,
and never could be. Its effect was
simply to prevent government
pleading the statute of limitations
against It's former defenders.
The House census deficiency bill,
making appropriations of $4,000,
passed. Applications for increased
compensation by superintendent
are not covered by the bill.
The Sherman funding bill, after
statements, will not be voted until
tomorrow, and as Plumb and others
desiring to offer amendments were
absent, 1T was laid over informally.
The Senate then took up ingalls,
resolution, declaring that the arrears
Of pension act ought not to be re-
pealed.
voorhees,, in support Of the reso-
luton, said denunciatiOns of the act
by the press Of the country, and
particularly by prominent organs Of
all kinds Of corporations Of wealth,
were made without the slightest
basis for their support or justification
A repetition of these denuncia-
tons by member of the Senate has
filled him with amazement and
pain. If Beck should make good
his allegations against the pension
arrears act its supporters would
have cause to hang their heads in
shame; but he Voorhees, claimed
that it was the work of justice on
the part Of government, dictated by
duty and patriotism. He then read
the terms of the act to show that it's
meaning was not obscure or
liable to misconstruction, and
that its designj, was simply to
remove that mean defense to the
payment of the honest debt. namely,
the bar or statute of limitation as
to pensions allowed under the care
fully prepared provisions of
the pension act. 1t merely
said that if a soldier, broken
with disease and wounds, had been
slow in presenting his claim and
had allowed the five years limit to
pass without doing 30, he would
still be permitted to prove his in
juries and receive his pension from
the time heiwas discharged from the
army on that account. He made
long and strong argument for the
act, its wisdom and justice. Beck
said both houses, in passing out, had
been imposed on by claimants. Had
the scope Of the bill been known, it
would have received no support. 1t
was believed that it would cost only
S1g,0o0,O0J or $4,000, 900. the high
est estimate had been $4,000, 900,
and it was rushed through and
passed under a suspension of rules,
while members were going home
on the evening of the 18th. No
body understood it.
Ingalls, sarcastically objected to
Rack'S ctltpmpOt oOd IOTi0