New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-17
XLvIIrH CONGRESSES SESSION
REGULAR REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

A SENATE BILL FOR CONGRESSMAN h'""N
BUILDING "A DEBATE ON THE INGALLS, ARREAhs
OF PENSIONS REscLUTIoN-MANY BILLS iNfho-
DUCED IN THE HOUSE.
SENATE. WASHINGTON, Monday, jan H. lss-
Communications from the Secretary of the
Treasury were submitted by the President pro tenn
transmitting the annual report OF the Coast and Geode
tic Survey, and also q to the senate RESOLUTION
OF inquiry respecting the organization OF sepaa'o
court for the trial of customs cases.
Mr. VEST Dem, MOI presented the petinon OF henry
Hitchcock and others OF st. Louis for the establishment
q, competitive examiners for all subordinate officers OF
the Government.
Mr. VOORHEES, Dem, TndJ reported, from the JOINT
select COMMITTEE the subject bill authorizing the CON
gressiona library. He said the report was unahhohs
and he would hereafter present tns SsaStay
Identical with the bill which passed tho Senate last year
providing for the purchase Of the s ssst 81 Sho
the construction of the building The present bill how
ever increases the omouni hab D % ~ 100 GOO and
authorizes the commission consisting o. tne SEQ sea
rotary OF the Interior the architect Of the Gapoi ana
tracts for the construction OF the building In
accordance with the plan adopted by the joint Seect
JONES Dem fla introduced bill granting 70 tne
bnid bridges over the navgabe between Pensa-
cola and Chattahochie, Florida. ,, -, A.,
Mr.. CALL Dem. Fla) introduced Dill Granting tne
right OF way through tho public lands to the Paatka ana
Indian River Railway COMPANY. ,a os,od nrssent
In. l.l
consideration OF bill granting arrears OF pension TO
the widow of Abraham Lincoln. He had read letter
from the surgeons attending the lady showing her 10 De
an frer from spinel and other troubles and from cata
raots in both eyes said he had statements from per
sufcient to pay the necessary medical and nurse at
tendance which her comparatively helpless, m 40 re
ouired arrearages under the Dill woud De- AT the
rate OF the pension $4,000 per year for hve years. OF
$4,000 ,u,.
fore the holidays directing inquiry as 10 what urtho
allowances should be made to Mrs Lincoln was now
beinq considered the Pensions Committee, 10 when M
was referred and lie suggested the reference OF the Dill
to that committee.
EXPLAINED thai the cases of Mrs Garfield and Mrs LIN
coin were now Under consideration In connection WIN
a measure Of the subject, and II was hoped report
would be made at an early day 1he blu was then re-
ferred to the Pensions Committee a..
ing the Secretary of the Treasury 10 furnish copies OF all
charges and complaints reports or other information on
revenue in the With Collection district OF North Carolina
and copies OF any orders by the collector thereof for
bidding the arrest taking out of process OF arrest OF
offenders against the re7onue laws. Adopted.
Nr. HALE (Rep, Mel, from the Committee on Appro
IRA 10 8 reported favorably the House census DO
clcncy oil making an Appropriation OF SolcOOV' Inc
bill taken mp 0nd passed
ter statements by several Senators that their under
standing that vote on the Blu would not Do taken
amendments absent, was laid over IN or.nally
The senate then, on mOtioro OF Mt. INGALLS, tRep.;
Kan took up hs resolution declaring tha inc Arrears u
Pensions act ought not 70 be repealed.
NJ VOORHEES, Dom, lnd.L IN support OF the resoln
country, and particularly by prominent organs OF al
kinds of corporations were made without the slightest
basis Their support Justification The repetition OF
these denuncatons by member Of the Senate had hled
the senator from KentGcRy Mr. Beck should make
good his allegations against thu Pension Arrears act ls
supporters would have cause to hang their heads "a
shame but he WOOrhees) claimed that IL was work Of
justice the part Of the Government dictated Dy duy
and patriotism. He then read the terms OF the act to
show that not Obscure or likely 10 MS
construction and that its design was simply to remove
that mean defence the payment OF an honest debt
a
allowed under carefully prepared provisions oil previous
S broken with disease and wounds, had been
slow in presenting his cialm ana mas
allowed the fyeyear limit to pass without doing so, he
would still permitted TO prove his Injuries and to re-
oeye his pension from the time ne was dlsGnarsed from
that though penury and Ignorance might have pre-
vented her from asserting her right Tor few years YET
her from the day and hour when her husband sealed bis
measureless devotion 10 that Government
r %l5h us to the charges made against the
Pensions Arrears act, Mr.. voorhees, commended that
Mr. BECK Diem, Ky) said that in the passage OF the
bill referred both houses OF Congress were imposed
upon by set OF pension claim agents. VINO aeYIsso
the scheme OF pension arrearages for their own benefit
that II IT'S actual cost had been ioretod or IN any
way indicated at the time the Dill would pot nave TO
ceved the support OF any OF the members VINO voe LOT
it, He gave an outline OF the Oh ne o of
tho rules which cut of debate; that the measure
one that had not been before committee; tnau tne
question pressed for action upon the eve o a a.-
ournment when member wers ta oe against
proposition which, Sssc @R Se b H. nfSoSgh not
understood was allowed to pass without dissent He
quoted from the debates upon 1t to show that the maxi
$50 900 900 while 81 600 600 or S200O00O0 were the
highest figures mentioned In the Senate lie asked
whether the Senate did not believe fraud was commit
ted hen he member. was induced 10 yOe upon
measure upon belie which subsequent deyeiopnents
had shown TO be entirely unWarranted. lie assumed
that no member imagined that the results OF thai egsa-
ton would be wnat they are, and that II u had been
Pensions TO be the ac that 10 per cent OF te otai
of the would be paid ont In fraudulGnt claims
not vote would have been given for the BILL lie re-
minded the Senators that when the bl came from tne
House to the Senate me later O1d TS to come
from various parts of the country These ne asserted
were gotten up G the Pps aYSs IKE eonny for
lures order to create pressure upon Toe senate
Mr. hNGA "a t6s sP hdh ne lad nst made
MI BECK replied by reading from the report OF the
Commissioner Of Pensions In 1872 SHOWING .ne eAist
added the adoption OF the resolution would DC eqVa
Lent TO 'G9 f OF the law as the senate had com
Mr iNGAIiS-Tf a majority of the Senate thinks,
with the Senator, that tho Arrears bill was fraud ana
that every man voted for u was an lgnorant ana
selfish coward invitation will oe gwen to the House
mr BECK reiterated that Congress deceived by
scheme connected by interested outsiders, ana asked
MIR Ingalls, II he did not believe, when he voted
for IT, that the act would not Involve a gsr1s a.
S25.o0o.oo0.
Mr. INGALLS, replied that the statement was imputed
IA him In the press and elsewhere, when the Dill passed
that liza operations would not require upward o.
$40 600 O00 but he had never made any such
Wna he did say that II those already upon the roll
who had been deprived of the pensions 10 when they
had been entitled were given the arrears they had
earned M to the time of the passage OF the b would
omonnt 10 aboGt 81 600 600 that the previously
visiting limitations were removed, no definite state
ment OF the total could be made as the number OF
Iuture applications could not he foreseen.
Mr. BECK repeated that the estimates OF the totals foL
the wears 1870 and 1880 made by the secretary oil
the Interior aud Pension Commissioner, taken III con
necton with the statements made In debate, supported
| tho view NE had taken.
Mr. INGALLS, then asked what had tho frauds OF
expenditure TO do with the principle on winch the pen
| sion arrearaxes were based.