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add 100000 to the pension-roll annually. 1t
is only four months to December. These per-
sons all enjoy pensions now. do not say that
there is not merit and justice in making some
increase of their pension.
Mr.. INGALLS,. What rate have they now?
Mr. PLATT Eighteen dollars and $24. But
/ do think that bill of this sort should not be
passed except when we can have the deliberate
judgment of the Senate upon it. The motion
is not in order; the bill is still in committee.
The only motion which is in order is to dis
charge the committee, and to that shall object.
Mr.. HARRISON. l am in favor of this bill !;
and while it may be that the deliberations of
the committee might suggest some amend
ments, or perhaps enlarge its scope so as to ex-
tend its benefits to other classes of pensioners
equally deserving, yet l would be glad if we
could have the present consideration of the
measure.
Mr.. VAN WICK. unite in the opinion ex-
pressed by the Senator from Indiana, Mr..
HARRISON, and if l may be allowed, being a
member of the Committee on Pensions, to which
this matter has been referred which is so ably
presided over by the Senator from Connecticut,
| feel it is due to that class of persons repre-
sented by the bill to say that there should have
been some action taken on this matter. As a
member of that committee / ana frank to say
that we are not entirely freed from the charge
Of not having fully discharged our own duty in
the other House and it should have received
some report from the committee to which it
was referred. If the bill was loosely drawn it
should have been corrected in that respect. If
there were another class of soldiers who have
suffered equally as much and are equally en-
titled to consideration in the way OF increase
of pension by reason of disease contracted in
the service, which entitled them to relief as
much as those who lost limb, then that mat
ter should have been considered and they
should have been added.
No matter if it may add 100000 to the
pension list; no matter if 100000 be taken
from the Treasury; far better that $7,0O0,0O0
be expended in the way which is proposed by
the bill than the additional seven million, and
ten million to that seven million upon the
river and harbor bill, which was passed by a
two-thirds vote of both branches over the veto
of the President.
The PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Senator
from Connecticut objects to the further con-
sideration of the bill
Mr.. VOORHEES, Does the Senator from Con-
necticut insist on his objection?
Mr.. PLATT. l do.
Mr.. VOORHEES,. Very well.
Mr.. PLATT. l must do it. '-of
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THE INEQUALITY OF BoUNTIEs.

To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:'
The increasing interest that the Government
and Congress are taking in the soldiers that
defended and saved the Government is, l think
to great extent due to the influence of your
patriotic and philanthropic paper. ! therefore
ask leave to express, through your columns, my
protest against wrong that thousands of sol
diers, myself included, are suffering at the
hands of the Government, and which | can do
the more effectively by brief sketch of my
service in the army during the dark and event
ful year of 1861, when day after day brought
new grounds for alarm and despair to the heart
of every true patriot in the North when State
after State seeded from the Union; and when
the army of the rebellion had augmented to
proportions scarcely paralleed in the history
of modern warfare. President Lincoln called
for 100000 soldiers, to enlist for three years or
during the war, and as an inducement to
enlist offered $l3 a month as pay and 500
bounty, to be paid each man at the end of the
service. l enlisted under that CALL and soon
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Ohio infantry, commanded by Colonel John w.
Sprague. We were assigned to the army under
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! had no fear of losing it in that way, as ! felt
so much better that | thought / would soon be
good for a slopbucllet full of almost any kind
Of soup; but my disease assumed such a form
that was discharged upon a surgeons certifi-
cate Of disability, and thereby lost my bounty
/ enlisted when there was no danger of being
drafted, and hence received no local bounty
and but S13 month, while thousands who en-
listed later received a large local bounty and
$500 bounty from the Government, and $l6 pay
instead of $13, which was our pay.
In conclusion, will say / feel proud Of hav-
ing been a Union soldier, and L think with
pride of the munificent care the Government
bestows on many, yet / claim, with keen sense
of injury, that this great Government has
wronged me out of 800.
HARVEY SHUBERT.
CYNTHIANA o. July 30
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THE $40 BILL IN THE SENATE.
Mr.. Platt Objects TO its Consideration and
Goes Over.

Mr.. Platt Objects TO its Consideration and il
Goes Over.
On Tuesday in the Senate Mr.. Voorhees, rose
and said:
We are now approaching the certain termi-
nation of this long and arduOus session Of Con-
grcss. During its existence many measures OF
relief or alleged relief, have been brought for
ward for our consideration. Some have been
full of merit; i'll some the merits have been
disputed. | hold i'll my hand a bill passed by
the House of Representatives with great unan-
unity on the Sth of June for the relief of a
class of persons the most meritori0us, in my
judgment, in this Government; and am about
to ask the Senate, as parting service toward
this excellent class of people, to take up and
pass the bill (H. Il. No. 141O) to amend the
pension laws by increasing the pension of sol
diers and sailors who have lost an arm or a leg
in the service.
Mr. PLATT. must reserve the right to OBJ
icct to the consideration Of the bill. l should
like the attention of the Senate for a moment
The bill has received good deal of attention
by the Committee on Pensions. That commit
tee has been unable to come to any conclusion
upon it. j think if the Senate were prepared
to hear my statement at length in regard to
that bill the Senate would see that it ought not
to pass in the shape in which it is. | cannot
discuss the merits of bill on motion to con-
slider it, but if the Senate desire to consider the
bill [ must ask after it is taken up consider
able time to state what are the Inconsistencies OF
the bill and what its effect would be. l reserve
my right to object
Mr. VOORHEES, But the Senator will not
object to my saying II single word. l have no
purpose of rejecting upon the Committee on
Pensions / do not do that; | have no such
feeling | have waited until the last hour
knowing that this matter was being considered
by the Committee on Pensions. | think if time
is given that more can be shown why the bill
should pass as it passed the House. after careful
consideration there, than can be shown against
it.
The passage of this bill will carry not to a
great many, Tor this class of lame people are
dying more rapidly according to the death
rates than people are aware Of but it will carry
to some thousands of homes more gladneSs
more sense of relief than half dozen such tax
bills as we have been considering in favor of a
different class of people.
/ sincerely hope that the Senator from Con
necticut can see his duty clear to allow this
h bill to be taken up and passed, and if it takes
an hour, or two hours, or until the hour hand
of yonder clock is on the figure III and the
minute-hand is on the figure XII, it will not
be time badly spent in the estimation of the
country.
Mr.. PLATT. yield no man, not even to the
Senator from Indiana, in my sympathy for the
soldier, but the bill in the present shape will
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"No EQUAL AS A SOLDIERS PAPER"
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
I have been subscriber TO your valuable
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Co. d, 49th III. Vol. Inf.
WATCHING THAT FORTY DOLLAR BILL.

WATCHING THAT FORTY DOLLAR BILL.
To the Editor NATIONAL TRIBUNE:
Permit one-armed soldier TO speak a few
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PENSION LEGISLATION.
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receive it, under the bill reported by the COM
nittee would the widow be entitled to that?
Mr. PLATT. She would only be entitled to
the widows pension Of s.. The bill does not
change the existing law in that respect. 1t
re-enacts the statute just as it is except the
provision made for exceptional cases.
The bill was reported to the Senate without
amendment, ordered to he engrossed for n
third reading, read the third time, and passed.
The above bill was taken up Saturday in the
House, and after a brief debate was passed.