The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-01-27
FORTY.SEVENTH CONGRESS.

THE Senate, on the 10Th, passed the Gen.
sus deficiency bill. When Mr. IngalIs's reso-
luton that the Pensions Arrears act ought not
to be repealed came up, Mr.. voorhees,
said the denunciations of the act by the press
of the country, and particularly by prominent
were made without the slightest basis for
their support or Justification. A repetition
of these denunciations by members of the
Senate had filled him with amazement and
pain. If the Senator from Kentucky Bee )
should make good his allegations against the
Pensions Arrears act its supporters would
have couse to hang their heads in
was a work of justice on the part of the
Government, dictated by duty and patriot.
ism. The only question raised was whether
the payment OF pension should date from
the wounding, disease or death of a soldier, or
should not commence until he had spent if
teen or sixteen years in hunting up proofs of
the fact of his wounds or disease. He secuted
as absurd the charge that claim agents pro-
cured passage of the act; the frauds com
mitted were trivial in amount, compared with
that in popular imagination: Mr.: Beck said
that in the passage of the bill both Houses of
Congress were imposed upon by pension
claims agents, who devised the scheme for
their benefit. and that if its actual cost had
been fOretold or in anv way indicated at the
time the bill would not have received the sup.
He gave an outline of the progress OF the bill,
showing it had passed the House under suS-
pension of the rnles which cut OH debate
that the measure passed was not the one
recommended by the committee, but one that
had not been before the committee; that the
question was passed for action upon the eve
of adjournment. when members were going
home for re election and were indisposed to
vote against a proposition which upon its
face had only a patriotic object. The bill, al
though not understood, was allowed to pass
buttons would be equivalent to telling the
House that it might as well cease to consider
all notifications of the law, as the Senate had
committed itself against them: Mr.. ingalls, s.
"If a majority of members think, with the
Senator, that the Arrears bill was fraud and
that every man who voted for it was an
ignorant and selfish coward, invita-
ton will be given the House to pass their
general subject of taxation, taking as his text
his pending resolution declaring it inexpedi.
ent to reduce the revenue by abOlishing all
existing internal revenue taxes except those
upon highwines and distilled spirits. In
the House, Mr.. Rcbeson called up as privi-
legged question the report of the Committee
on Rules, increasing the membership on the
various committees. A point of order and
the question of consideration being raised, it
was decided not to consider the question of
privilege. Bills were introduced: By Mr..
ParsOns-TO define the crime of bigamy; by
Mr.. Notwithstanding fractional paper
currency; by Mr.. McCord-Makins four years
the term of office of Electors and giving them
power to act in case of death or disability of
shO VI ny All. DUR
rows-To retire national bank notes.
REsUMING his remarks upon the ingalls,
resolution, 18th, Senator Beck read from the
records of an investigation by the House
committee in 1879, shortly after the act be-
came a law, showing the existence in WASH
ington of an organization protesting to be tho
Soldiers and Sailors Association, which was
actively engaged, when the bill was pending,
in sending cut for signatures and having re.
turned to Congress as though voluntarily